[KLUG Members] Open Kylix

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>I would like to know more about what web development and RAD capabilities
>are with Kylix.  I could not find a white paper.

I do not think Lylix is intended for web development.  Qt is a "desktop"
widget set.

>I am thinking about developing intranet applications that have a
> mixed OS environment.    Can a person build a web server
>application with pull-down menus... that can be ususable by i-explorer
>and netscape?  Is the whole process in a RAD environment with database
>development?

Yes.  One can either use DHTML and a scripting language an achieve a
fair amount of what your probably looking for.  Or one could use Java.

RADs are available for Java.  I'm not aware of any for building "true"
web based applications, anyone?

While I love the RAD concept,  the ugly little details of life have
always prevented me from really using any.  Over the years I've spent
$,$$$ of my own money on various tools,  almost all of which sit in a
box in the basement.  The only one I actually really liked was from
Empress,  the RAD was cheap (say $300) but to deploy an application they
wanted about $600 a seat which I thought was very unreasonable.  Once
you have to "crawl under to covers" to patch up something the RAD model
can't handle you've lost (IMHO) almost all the value of using a RAD tool
(most of which will seek mightily to stomp out your manual change).

If I were to start over on the Intranet I support I'd use something like
Sand-Storm/XML-RPC would be the best tool to base it on.  Display /
Data-Processing are inherently seperared (you !!!NEED!!! to do this,
regardless of the tools you use), and you can tie multiple languages
together (something at which PHP is frustratingly poor at doing).