online glom vs. glom

[Michael Jenny <prinzdezibel googlemail com>]

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> On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 22:30 +0200, Michael Jenny wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > today I've come across the glom project and I find it very interested
> > (mainly because I'm doing something very similar to online glom based
> > on Python. But it's far from being anywhere near as sophisticated as
> > the glom project).
> >
> > I have some questions:
> >
> > First, I have cloned the online-glom repository and did the maven
> > buildout. When starting the app in Chrome I get:
> > Configuration Error: onlineglom.properties not found.
> > Maybe somebody can give me a hint?
>
> That is described here:
> http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Development/OnlineGlom#Configuring_gwt-glom
>
> and here:
> http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Development/OnlineGlom/Deployment

Thank you for your explanations. After some digging, I've found the
docs. Although I've a hard time to compile libglom on osx. Maybe I
should stick to ubuntu.



> > Second, do I understand it correctly that online-glom is a complete
> > rewrite of C++ glom in Java (as a GWT-Application)?
>
> It currently uses libglom (C++) via JNI, with a Java (GWT) UI. I plan to
> replace the use of libglom with a Java reimplementation, but only the
> non-developer functionality.

Is this intention because that would enable you to provide the user
defined data structures (tables, relations, etc.) as Java objects, so
they are re-usable directly for consumption when developing user
defined web applications?

I've chosen a similar architecture, because it allows me to construct
ORM-mapped domain models (which correlates to user-defined tables) und
re-use them two-fold:

- For the management application (correlates to online-glom)
- In add-on python packages that contain customer/project specific code.


> > If so, do you intend it to supersede the C++ glom or will they co-exist?
>
> They will co-exist. Rewriting all of Glom's functionality in Java and
> GWT would be a massive Job.
>
> > And third: I've read that online glom is ATM a read-only application.
> > Is this about to change soon?
>
> If I find the time. I hope to.
>
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