Re: 4.2 modeler change

I concur with the idea that a Java-served web app (hosted inside an
Electron app) would be best.

@Emmerson - I don't know if there were JIRAs created, I didn't create them
personally.

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:20 AM Michael Gentry <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 11:10 AM Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > As for the JS backend, the concern (at least from me) was that our
> > community is mostly Java developers, so it may be hard to support if a
> > primary author becomes unavailable. FWIW, it is less of a concern for me
> > these days, as JS world had matured significantly since the last time we
> > had this discussion.
> >
>
> I wouldn't do the backend in Node/JS with an Electron application if I
> could avoid it.  I'd bundle a Java-based microservice that the Electron UI
> starts up and uses to read/write Cayenne models, communicate with DBs via
> JDBC, etc.  With JavaFX I was just using the Cayenne JARs natively (no
> client/server architecture).
>