From: Its Me <itsme213@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T04:44:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Nitro Web Engine 0.2.0


"George Moschovitis" <gm@navel.gr> wrote in message
news:clkqat$1q5a$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr...

> things I dont like: for example the way Rail forces the application
> design to the developer.

How do you mean?

> Nitro has a different focus. Nitro aims to
> be a framework for SCALABLE applications with many concurrent users
> online. Wherever possible we will try to optimize the rendering pipeline
> as much as posible and alway select the scalable way to implement
> features.

Do you mean Nitro prefers a pre-compile + cache approach over fully run-time
manipulation?

> However many features of Rails, like scaffolding and controllers will be
implemented
> soon.

That's great to hear.

> Btw the Builder aproach is something like Amrita and has nothing
> to do with Nitro .sx pages. Nitro .sx pages are something like php or
> jsp but FULLY xml compliant so you can use tools like xmlint to
> automatically validate files,

> use XSLT to pretansform them,

Or RexML on the .sx page, to continue working in Ruby?

> it is
> compatible with syntax highliting in editors etc.

Could I create a .sx page in Dreamweaver?

> I 'll include an example in a future version.

That would be a big help.

Thanks!