Re: Web interface

[Martyn Shiner <martyn shiner severndelta co uk>]

> > Have seen some stuff in the wiki and on Murray's blog about the
> > 'possibility' of a web interface to Glom for end users.
> Yes:
http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2009/03/24/learning-java-web-stuff/
> > Is this still in the works? 
>
> More or less. I created a very simple proof of concepts using Java, JSP,
> and GWT:
> http://github.com/murraycu/online_glom
>
> At the moment it just shows a list of tables names in the web browser.
>
> I'm also concerned at how difficult it is to deploy JSP on cheap web
> hosting. And I'm concerned at how near impossible it is to deploy a C++
> library on cheap web hosting. But in the worst case, libglom could be
> gradually replaced with a Java reimplementation for the web UI. 
>
> > Any time scales?
>
> Not really. It's hard to find time for it while also doing paying work.
> It's one of the things that I hope to find a sponsoring company for.

We do most of our work in PHP+postgresql - I have two developers working
on an ERP system - maybe if we could dovetail a glom based extension to
this so that we could grab data from the erp system - that'd be cool. I
really like glom and a web interface for users would be great.

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Regards

Martyn Shiner