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Web Development for RB Users
Issue: 6.4 (May/June 2008)
Author: Joe Strout
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Since you're reading this magazine, you probably already know how great REALbasic is for developing desktop apps. Sometimes, though, the situation calls for a web application. Web apps are often a better solution for presenting data to, or gathering data from, a large number of users who don't want to be bothered with downloading and installing a desktop app. They also expand your audience beyond the major desktop platforms; everything from game consoles to cell phones allows access to the web these days.
It's possible to create a web app in REALbasic by building a custom web server; in fact I've been building web apps this way, including some that are in commercial use, for over two years now. I haven't been very satisfied with this approach, though. First, generating HTML entirely from RB code is tedious and error-prone. Even with the help of template files, it's much more of a chore to create and edit web pages this way than by editing HTML directly. Second, this technique doesn't work well on a site that's already using some standard web server such as Apache. Finally -- and perhaps most critically -- it means that you have to restart the server every time you change the code. In many commercial environments, that's a show-stopper.
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