Re: Newbie questions

LF wrote:
> I'm evaluating XUL/RDF for a new ERP app or better to port an existing
> app.
> In the last weeks I've gone through the tutorial and googled
> everything with XUL/RDF but I still miss something.
> I hope this is the right place to post if not please forgive me and
> point me to the right group.
> 
> 1. I need a remote app without any local storage, is it a viable
> solution for a complex ERP app in XUL?
> 
> 2. Is it correct if I say that the "life-cycle" of a XUL app can be:
> SQL->RDF, XUL widgets change the RDF in-memory, RDF will be serialized
> and sent to a remote app using XMLHttpRequest, RDF->SQL?
> 
> best regards,
> Lorenzo Fiorini
> 

It really depends on your transaction model and the total size of the 
dataset.

You should also know how much RDF templating is going to give compared 
to plain DOM-based content creation. The RDF/XML implementation doesn't 
serialize back over the net, just to files, so you'll need to write the 
serialization part yourself anyway, at which point not using RDF may 
come as a benefit or not.

Axel