Question: tools for business apps development

[R Baumann]

"Carlos Ribeiro" <carribeiro at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> Thanks to all that have contributed so far. Some very good suggestions
> have appeared. I still have my concerns over XUL. Flash is also
> another matter -- it requires yet another set of knowledge and tools
> before starting to write code. But nonetheless, all these approaches
> have their own advantages, namely a richer user experience than it's
> possible with plain HTML (or even Tk). So they're really worth
> checking.
>
> As a dig deeper in the search of a business development paradigm for
> Python, the more problems I find. It's not only lack of tools. It's
> also the lack of a common idiom to write business apps. Each and every
> library around uses a different approach to map business objects and
> concepts to Python's code. Each one ties things together in a
> different way. It's surprising, considering that in Python normally
> "there is one way to do it". Not this is a show stopper -- it only
> shows how far we are now from something like J2EE.
>
> I'll keep looking around and checking more stuff. As far as the user
> interface is concerned --  I'll probably do it simple, using HTML and
> Javascript. Yes, I'm going to implement a webapp, instead of a native
> Windows app, or at least that's the current choice (my friend changed
> his mind over this). But I'll keep posting my progress.
>
> -- 
> Carlos Ribeiro

Have you looked at GNUe?