[fpc-pascal] Servlet server for Fpc apps

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Dariusz Mazur wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt pisze:
> > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Dariusz Mazur wrote:
> >
> >   
> > > >
> > > > I want to write my client-side GUI code in pascal. I have no wish to
> > > > learn
> > > > Javascript. All extensive computation (mostly queries and database
> > > > stuff)
> > > > happens on the server, but the GUI must be programmed in Javascript
> > > > because
> > > > that is all the browser understands. 
> > > >   
> > > >       
> > > Yes, You have to had client-side write in JS. But its not so huge  as You
> > > imagine.
> > > But maybe I dont understand your need.
> > > You think about counterpart of LCL level, or computation wide consist in
> > > event
> > > (form.onclick, form.onedit) function in Delphi ?
> > >     
> >
> > All events and almost any class I need should be available in the client...
> >
> >   
> What for?
> You want to move 20% of application to browser. And you think that will be
> faster? more flexible?
> will  work on most browsers?
> I dont think so.

What I want doesn't matter. Our clients want rich web 2.0 webapps. 

I just want to make them in pascal and keep the codebase and know-how 
I have in my team.

If it was up to me, client/server would do the job just fine. But I cannot
ask all parents of all pupils of all our schools to install a client
application:
a) They don't want it. They are mostly computer agnostic, but they can surf the internet.
b) Our helpdesk would find and emigrate to an unknown island somewhere in the 
   south pacific because of the installation and upgrade problems :-)

Michael.