Which technology is preferable to build a web based GUI Client?

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Which technology is preferable to build a web based GUI Client?

I've well developed Python Server having workflows, views, object - ORM/OSV, etc... Server/Client communication based on socket protocol, can be done by any of service 1. XMLRPC Service 2. Socket Service

now I want to develop a Fully Ajax based GUI web Client.. I've web/socket services to communicate with server.

what I need is to select the technology, I've several options like,

ExtJS - CherryPy
GWT
Ext-GWT
CheeryPy
Django + JQuery
Django + Extjs
???
???...

+1 A:

You've said you have a server. So what protocol is understood by it? If it is just HTTP you don't need a web framework like Django/CherryPy. You could take any JS framework like (jQuery + jQuery Tools, MooTools, ExtJS, whatever) and write down JS scripts that will talk to your server via AJAX requests and visualize replies in form of html.

If your server is something that should be talked to with custom TCP/IP protocol you have to build a proxy. You could use a framework for this like Django, but for simplicity I recommend to take plain WSGI + Werkzeug.

nailxx 2010-01-26 10:58:58

server understands 2 protocols, xmlrpc and 2nd is python socket based communication

Tumbleweed 2010-01-26 11:02:15

so you need a bridge that will take HTTP requests from browser, translate them into socket-based packets, wait for reply and translate it to a form consumable by browser (json, xml, html). If you have real-time ideology and not request-response you have to look at technology that is called Comet

nailxx 2010-01-26 11:11:17

Or as i said, just use Flex (or I assume Silverlight) which comes with socket functionality out of the box.

John 2010-01-26 11:34:53

If you port your architecture to HTTP, you'll have an easier time finding answer to this question, as noted by nail.xx.

Jonathan Julian 2010-01-26 15:53:03

+1 A:

I'm not sure I understood exactly on the server side, but i'm a big fan of Flex as a way to develop proper software for the browser, rather than mess of trying to make HTML do things it was never made for. Partly an idealistic reasoning, but I also am still not impressed by the 'feel' of JS-based GUIs.

Flex has good server-communication options... web-services, sockets, remote objects, etc.

John 2010-01-26 11:09:11

but you need a with-flash navigator and you need to buy the Flex DK, don't you?

enguerran 2010-01-26 17:09:36

don't know what a navigator is. Flex SDK is free, Adobe's IDE is not but is not essential - however I assume professionals use professional tools and it's not very expensive. I'd rather use the right tool than save a few $ and make something less great.

John 2010-01-28 10:36:02

How about Pylons + SQLAlchemy + ExtJS? We use it and it works great!

Tefnet Developers 2010-01-26 14:33:40

+5 A:

Try using pyjamas, which is a port of GWT for Python. Instead of writing code in js, which is pretty disturbing experience, you can code in Python and compile it to js.

gruszczy 2010-01-26 14:52:45

I liked the pyjamas I was not knowing that,thanks.

Tumbleweed 2010-01-26 19:17:06

Hope it works for you :-) I still can't run pyjamas programs as standalone python scripts, but compiling to js works just fine :-)

gruszczy 2010-01-27 11:37:24

+1 A:

If you like Django for the server-side bits of your front-end, consider dojango -- it helps integrate Django on the server side with the dojo Javascript toolkit on the browser side of things (Dojo is not quite as popular as jQuery, nevertheless it's just about as powerful, and some of us prefer it for architectural and stylistic reasons;-).

Alex Martelli 2010-01-26 17:03:49

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