Building a web app

[IT2BE]

OK, so this is the case:

I have a couple of 'locations' set up to process (xml) post requests.
Part of what it does is validation, creating of files and sending out
(confirmation) emails.

So far so good.

This is nothing new but I am moving it from existing implementations
using different technologies to a Bombax only system.

Along with that I would like to create 1 new web app and re-create an
existing web app.

I am definitely not too familiar with all kinds of web technologies
and would like this to be as limited as possible.

What is the best I can do?

1 Combine html forms with Javascript
2 I have taken a look at Cappuccino and I like it
3 Anything else?

Questions:
1. HTML/Javascript, limiting?
2. Cappuccino, how do I integrate this with Bombax server processing?
When possible do you have a very easy sample?
3. Dunno...

Thanks,

Marcel

[IT2BE]

I found another framework sprout (I did not know it but this is used
by apple for mobileme ).

[Dominic Blais]

This is really going to depend on the type of web application but, broadly, Bombaxtic will support any of them.  There are a large number of toolkits based on JavaScript (including Cappuccino and SproutCore as you've found) and you can also go the route of using Flex or Flash.  All of these will typically post some data back to the server in XML or JSON format.  XML is supported through Cocoa (if only it were well supported in the iPhone SDK!) but for JSON you might want to add http://code.google.com/p/json-framework/ unless you want to parse it yourself (not too difficult).

All of these approaches really are useful for AJAX type apps.  If you are writing non-AJAX applications, then HTML+CSS is likely the best approach as it will render very quickly, be highly compatible, and will easily integrate with other technologies.

Best wishes,

Dominic Blais
COO & Hacker-in-Chief

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[IT2BE]

Hi Dominic,

I understand. What I was hoping for was a more tight integration of
the mentioned Cappuccino and SproutCore with Bombax.
Much like the handlers now available.

[IT2BE]

BTW I use kis xml for the iPhone xml requests. Works very well...

[Dominic Blais]

The plan is to eventually extend the BxClientLib so that it has a JavaScript library using XML property lists.  At that point integrating with various libraries will be a breeze.  We've talked a little with the Cappuccino folks about bundling with them and we're both excited about it, but it will probably be a little while before that's available.  Thanks for the tip on iPhone XML.

Sincerely,

Dominic Blais
COO & Hacker-in-Chief