[Catalyst] RIA on Catalyst

[Robert Krimen]

Whatever RIA framework you choose, it will probably work fine with Catalyst.
I'm using View::JSON for communication back and forth with my Ajax-y
interface.

Personally, I like using a combination of YUI, jQuery, and Jemplate.

jQuery is a nice glue framework that makes accessing/manipulating the DOM
really easy.

YUI is a robust framework with *oodles* of documentation and examples. It
has really nice, high quality widgets (autocomplete, logger, tester, menu)
and some great .css assets.
YUI also has a strong focus on cross-browser compatibility.

Jemplate is a great tool for browser-side template rendering. It's basically
TT (Template Toolkit) for javascript. Instead of rendering html by using
string concatenation (var el =3D "<select " + name + ...) you can put all
that into templates.

The above combination gives a lot of freedom in terms of the look & feel of
your web application. You can add interactivity to a basic looking web page
or even implement a complex gmail-ish interface.

As an aside, I've never been much attracted to hoisting a desktop look &
feel (dialog boxes, lots of windowy widgets) into the browser.

Finally, I've tangled with ExtJS a little bit, but I always feel like I'm
groping around in the dark with their documentation. There's lots of
API-type documentation but it could use a ton more .pm-style SYNOPSISes.

Rob

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Peter Edwards <peter at dragonstaff.com>
wrote:

>  I've been thinking about how to implement a Rich Internet Application
> type interface using WSDL and REST data sources including some from a
> Catalyst base in an SOA style environment.
>
> I like Extjs but I've also been looking at Tibo General Interface
> http://www.tibco.com/devnet/gi/default.jsp
> which has a good open source tool for generating RIAs http://gi.tibco.com/
>
> Anyone used it with/without Catalyst and any comments?
>
> Thanks, Peter
> http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk
>
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