Design Considerations for Cross Platform development

Design Considerations for Cross Platform development

[John Resler]

Hello all,
    Looking for opinions here. I am developing an ASIS application with a
C++ front end.
Ada only Bigots need not respond. :) The reason for C++ is the very nice GUI
builder.
Question is... COM vs. client/server design. Any recommendations for an
application
thats logical functionality (ASIS Querys) is entirely separated from the
User Interface?

RE: Design Considerations for Cross Platform development

[Robert C. Leif]

You might try a Microsoft .net approach; and make use, as much as
possible, of XML. XForms has now been added to Internet Explorer by the
availability of FormsPlayer http://www.formsplayer.com/
Bob Leif

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Subject: Design Considerations for Cross Platform development

Hello all,
    Looking for opinions here. I am developing an ASIS application with
a
C++ front end.
Ada only Bigots need not respond. :) The reason for C++ is the very nice
GUI
builder.
Question is... COM vs. client/server design. Any recommendations for an
application
thats logical functionality (ASIS Querys) is entirely separated from the
User Interface?

Re: Design Considerations for Cross Platform development

[Stephen Leake]

"John Resler" <John-Resler@cox.net> writes:

> Hello all,
>     Looking for opinions here. I am developing an ASIS application with a
> C++ front end.
> Ada only Bigots need not respond. :) The reason for C++ is the very nice GUI
> builder.
> Question is... COM vs. client/server design. 

Hmm. In my understanding, COM _is_ client/server. So you'll have to be
more specific.

Perhaps you meant COM vs sockets?

> Any recommendations for an application thats logical functionality
> (ASIS Querys) is entirely separated from the User Interface?

Usually a good idea. There are no general solutions. You have to
decide exactly where to split the whole project, and carefully define
what data is passed between them.

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