Re: Just putting up some forms on the web...

Simplets is a good approach, but it needs significant work.   SimpleWebApp can do it, but it uses JSPs which is bad.  Ruby can do quick and dirty, but ultimately limiting.  There are many Java solutions, but they are horrible.  Avoid JSF.

If people want to help it would not take much effort to get Simplets up to doing quick List/Maintenance forms like SimpleWebApp does, but without the JSP. 

Have a look at Salesforce.com for quick and dirty hosted aps.

Anthony

At 07:39 AM 9/01/2010, you wrote:
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>I'm wanting to build some UI for my database.  Just some forms, really.  It's postgresql.
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>Since I use SimpleORM, I thought to look into SimpleWebApp.  I see it's been discontinued in favour of Simplets.  Simplets looks interesting, but still requires writing a little bit of code for every form.
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>I just want to put my tables on the web.  Make them editable tables, preferably with LDAP sign on for permissions.    
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>I don't really want to write any (much) code right now.  I mean, sure I'm going to want to write code eventually, eventually I'm imagining maybe something like Ruby on Rails that uses UNM Mapserver <http://mapserver.org/>http://map​server.org​/ and <http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/>http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ for fancy visualization of my model results.   Sometime long into the future I might even try to make web based editable maps.
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>But first, right now, I just want to put my postgresql tables onto the web as forms.  I'd like to choose either one-form-per-table (each row is a record) or one form per record.
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>What should I use?  For some reason I really can't seem to find an easy solution.  Some people are starting to tell me I should just use MS Access, because it has forms built in.  But it's not open source, not client-server, platform specific, and all those other bad things.  I need another solution.  I suppose it doesn't have to be web based, it could be a java app (that runs with webstart to avoid install issues) but I've tried and failed pretty miserably writing Swing once before, I don't want to have to write code to place the table and fill in the columns.)  I just want one-row-per-record or one-form-per-record.  
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>Any and all ideas appreciated.  If this is too off-topic, please send me an email personally.  Even one-word suggestions are welcome.
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>--
>John Abraham
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