Building a GUI agnostic database application

[Uwe Grauer]

Take at look at PAF http://www.dctools.org

Uwe

Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> I am wanting to write a database application using Python.
> 
> I want it to be GUI agnostic.  The GUI will probably be Python/wxPython, but
> I would also like the option of a Webbased (PHP?) gui, and possibly GUI's
> in Java or C++, Visual Basic etc.
> 
> The Python 'backend' may run on the same machine as the client (thick
> client), or on the same machine as the database (thin client).
> 
> My main requirements are:
> 1.  Reasonably light-weight
> 2.  Secure authentication between the GUI and the backend.
> 3.  Ideally runs wherever Python runs, and at least on Linux, Mac and
> Windows.
> 
> http://www.markcarter.me.uk/computing/python/python.html has a list of
> possible candidates.
> 
> These include:
> Corba, OSE, SOAP, Spread, Twisted, XML-RPC and Yami
> 
> It looks to me like XML-RPC run over SSL is probably the simplest solution,
> but I'd be interested in other peoples views.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rasjid.
>