Laszlo View

[al0]

Thanks very much for your prompt response Roll.

I'm looking forward to your article as i'm seriously considering Laszlo for our project.

I'm not a GUI person. So could you please explain a little bit on what do you mean by:



If you could outline those things in a high-level steps, i'll try to do more research on that.

Thanks!

Take as well look on ThinWire (www.thinwire.com).

[mmn007]

I was able to create a hack (I wouldn't call it a solution) openlaszlo and SWF to work together. I might write a white paper and provide it, but that depends on when I get time (may not be soon). However these are the steps I followed for getting it working.

I use dhtml compiler from Laszlo (but should be the same for swf as well, I suppose).

1. Write a view (look at jstlview etc.) to compile laszlo files. Look at the Main.lzc and Compiler.compile in Laszlo to find out how it can be done. In the view get the lzx file and compile it to the swf or js file we need.
2. This has to be embedded into html (Look at Browser integration chapter). I am currently using the compiled file embedded, but I think embedding it directly should work as well.
3. After embedding one will be able to get the UI rendered in the browser, but submit will not go to web flow. This is because Laszlo seems to be using XHR for all requests with the file name as the URL. Hence Spring Web Flow is not triggered. For this I have used a workaround where I embed the compiled laszlo file in a form and on clicking the submit button, I fill up a div with all the required inputs (hidden) and submit the form, instead of calling the Laszlo doRequest or submit calls.
4. For embedding and for future data to be embedded I am using Apache velocity to make the job easier. We might be able to use the Velocity view which comes with Spring to make the stuff faster, but I haven't reached there yet.

If you need more details on any of these let me know and I will be more than happy to help.

[dr_pompeii]

For people who doesn't know Laszlo, it is like Macromedia's Flex, but it is now opensource ;-)

i want to learn flex3, its free, the ide/tool is not free,anyway

a simple question, which is better? and why?
is there a list of comparation?

Laszlo in Action , one book,and 2 customer reviews, weird right?

regards