Alaska Software Inc. - WAA 2.0
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Allen Lee WAA 2.0
on Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:46:11 -0700
Hi Everyone:

I am a developer that only uses WAA 1.9 because web apps are my 
preferred delivery platform.
I have read with interest the many varied issues with Xbase++ 2.0 
reported by developers in this forum.

1. What has been the experience of anyone who creates web apps with the 
new 2.0 CXP software?
3. What has the conversion from WAA 1.9 code been like?
4. What is the motive to upgrade to 2.0 when I can do everything in 1.9?
Thomas BraunRe: WAA 2.0
on Tue, 24 Mar 2015 08:57:15 +0100
Allen Lee wrote:

> 1. What has been the experience of anyone who creates web apps with the 
> new 2.0 CXP software?

I don't use cxp so can't comment on that 

But where is your point 2.??? 

> 3. What has the conversion from WAA 1.9 code been like?

Basically I just compiled everything... done!	

> 4. What is the motive to upgrade to 2.0 when I can do everything in 1.9?

I wanted to switch to a Windows 2012 server running in a VM and 1.9 WAA
didn't even start on Win 2012.

regards
Thomas
Allen Lee Re: WAA 2.0
on Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:51:55 -0700
Thank you, Thomas, the missing point 2 is:

2.  The desktop (Xbase++) apps only run on a network while the web (WAA) 
apps run from any device that has an internet connection.
Why would a developer choose to create desktop applications over web 
applications?

On 3/24/2015 12:57 AM, "Thomas Braun" wrote:
> Allen Lee wrote:
>
>> 1. What has been the experience of anyone who creates web apps with the
>> new 2.0 CXP software?
>
> I don't use cxp so can't comment on that
>
> But where is your point 2.??? 
>
>> 3. What has the conversion from WAA 1.9 code been like?
>
> Basically I just compiled everything... done!	
>
>> 4. What is the motive to upgrade to 2.0 when I can do everything in 1.9?
>
> I wanted to switch to a Windows 2012 server running in a VM and 1.9 WAA
> didn't even start on Win 2012.
>
> regards
> Thomas
>
Thomas BraunRe: WAA 2.0
on Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:08:41 +0100
Allen Lee wrote:

> 2.  The desktop (Xbase++) apps only run on a network while the web (WAA) 
> apps run from any device that has an internet connection.
> Why would a developer choose to create desktop applications over web 
> applications?

Some applications might have security reasons, speed might be an issue as
well.

Web applications are sometimes not very user friendly and if they are, it
adds massive complexity to the code.

Thomas
Thomas BraunRe: WAA 2.0
on Thu, 26 Mar 2015 09:37:19 +0100
Thomas Braun wrote:

> Web applications are sometimes not very user friendly and if they are, it
> adds massive complexity to the code.

Or, if you decide to not code the UI stuff yourself, you have to use tons
of 3rd party components (jQuery et al) that bloat the whole thing quite
significantly and makes it hard to track down bugs.

Thomas