David Freeman wrote:
OK - it could be done as a java server process on the webserver/some server somewhere, that way we could have a java client or a web client...the java server could spit/recieve XML and all could be well in the world...
XML != nice. HTML does the job fine.
hhmmm at the point of starting a flame I'd like to say that xml is very good at what it does, removes content from markup, html is contant and markup munged together, not nice!! html is ok for small/medium sites, but any decent large scale dynamic stuff is all xml with xslt->html translators, believe me, xml is worth the effort...
me, sick, never (Oh, did I mention that I've done that sorta stuff before, perl talking to java is "fun", nearly as fun as java talking to CGIs).
/me = C and Java apprentice programmer and obeyer of the KISS principle
/me = C, Java, UML, OO, C++, Perl, PHP hacker.. I was taught OO by a Grady Booch Phd student ;) so if you need a hand with the design/implementation then give me a shout, (I've been programming in Java, both commercially and academically, since 1995 ;)...
Thanks
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PS one of these days I will learn a proper language AKA Lisp and write some decent type programs.
aarrgghhhh no, lisp is evil ;).. *duck*
Sz