[Fwd: [Zope] Remote scripting?]

Albert Boulanger aboulanger@vpatch.com
Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:23:12 -0400



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> Subject: Re: [Zope] Remote scripting?
> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:13:09 +0400 (MSD)
> From: Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>
> To: Ren=E9 Olsthoorn <rol@mediasys.nl>
> CC: "'zope@zope.org'" <zope@zope.org>
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> (Please no HTML posting)
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> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, [iso-8859-1] Ren=E9 Olsthoorn wrote:
> > Remote Scripting means: calling server-side code from a client-side s=
cript
> > without causing the active page to be reloaded.
> > (for more information see http://www.ashleyit.com/rs/)
> >
> > The website mentioned above contains an HTML page which contains two
> > comboboxes. The choices offered in the second combobox are calculated=
 on the
> > server, depending on the choice that the user makes in the first comb=
obox.
> > The values of the second combobox are retrieved from the server by
> > communicating with a java-servlet, and all this is done without reloa=
ding
> > the active page. (using DHTML, ofcourse).
> >
> > Has anyone done such a thing with Zope, in stead of a java-servlet?
>
>    http://openthought.net/
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>    It is not yet Zope or even Python related, but there are chances it =
will
> be. Python is mentioned on the first page.
>
> Oleg.

Also check out CURL which was originally a DARPA sponsored MIT project
to deal with some long standing problems with the client-side/server-side=
 chaos in
web based programming.

See http://www.curl.com

Regards,
Albert Boulanger
aboulanger@vpatch.com