Re: online glom vs. glom

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 10:08 +0200, Michael Jenny wrote:
[snip]
> > > 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?
[snip]

I intend to reimplement some of libglom in Java because that would make
development and deployment much easier, massively reducing the
dependencies. It would also allow much better performance, because we
would not need to lock the entire native (libglom) library.

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