On Sunday 29 May 2005 23:10, Kurt wrote:
* Finn-Arne Johansen <faj@bzz.no> [050524 14:24]:
Halvor Dahl wrote:
7. Technical architecture
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It was agreed that we need a three-tier application architecture
for user administration in Skolelinux to be able to support
different types of user interfaces. WebMin is probably not the
right tool, and we will decide on a new development framework
as part of the overall project. We will also create a new KDE
client covering all operations currently defined as use cases
in wlus.
TODO: Select development framework. Will be done later.
TODO: Create updated use cases as starting point for new KDE
interface and user documentation. Person to do it will be
assigned later.
Do we have to install KDE on tjener?
What about schools without KDE?
TODO: Create new user administration interface in KDE. Person
to do it will be assigned later.
TODO: Write new business logic in a three-tier application
architecture. Person to do it will be assigned later.
We dont think that this is very usefull because of two reasons:
1) If it is not usable by browser, it is too unflexible
2) Develop a KDE Application will consume too much manpower
I think you missed the point here:
the idea is to decouple the code handling the logic, from the code drawing
things on the screen, this creates a more flexible (and thus better)
program structure with several advantages:
- those developing can concentrate on either the gui or the logic at one
time, making development easier, and thus likely faster
- gui-development and logic-development can be done by different persons,
without them having to learn the ins-and-outs of both
- make it easy to switch from webmin to something else (wether webbased or
not) _if_ we ever need to for whatever reason
- makes it possible to develop several frontends (webmin/kde/...
(note: I don't read the above as anyone planning to competly drop the
web-interface)