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[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

Richard Morris writes:
 > Richard Morris wrote:
 > > Bear Kaufmann wrote:
 > > 
 > >>Hi everyone,
 > >>
 > >>As Chad mentioned I'll be out of town for a week.
 > >>Congrat's on the new release. I'll take look more in depth on my return.
 > >>
 > >>I've found a rather accessible system (Processing) that looks promising 
 > >>to develop a "Rich Client" in.
 > >>It's in Java, which can be a bit of the hog of system resources, so I'm 
 > >>wondering how the system responds on different systems.
 > >>So if you have a moment, could you look at one example, and see if it 
 > >>runs OK in your environment?
 > 
 > Ah I see you ment http://processing.org/
 > 
 >  From what I can see its mainly focused towards vector graphics and adds 
 > a simple layer on top of java. Could be kind of useful but does miss a 
 > lot a necessary features, client-server communication, interface 
 > elements etc.

Re: rich client communication with server.  I was envisioning this
would be xml-rpc which Java supports.  The only criteria is that the
platform be open enough so that we can put our xm-rpc hooks in.

 > Maybe we should start the other way round. Rather than "what could we do 
 > with this framework", perhaphs focus on "what would we want to do with 
 > rich client" and then work out which framework would best suit our needs.
 > 
 > Rich - babbling nonsense as ususual
 > 
 > p.s. yes it runs OK, Firefox - Win98
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