as far as I understand J is an APL like language so I was wondering with you do not have J binding inside pharo :) ? and script J from there? Stef On 29/8/14 21:15, Martin Saurer wrote:
Dear Stef, Dear Pharo Community,
Many thanks for answering my question about the future of Spec.
What I have done for the J platform, and now will try to do for Pharo is not directly comparable to Phobos (XULrunner) or Cocoa Widgets. At least I think so. If you are interested please take a look at: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Scripts/qjide
The qfe (Qooxdoo Frontend Engine) which is part of the qjide on the J platform is based on the Ajax Framework "Qooxdoo" http://www.qooxdoo.org.
The qfe is a JavaScript library which acts like Qt, WinForms, Cocoa, Morphic, etc. for the desktop, but lives entirely in the web browser. The web application itself is written in 100% J (now), or 100% Pharo (in the future). To build a qfe based web application, there is no need to use HTML, CSS, XULrunner, etc. The qfe may be bound to nearly any programming platform which has a web server. Pharo together with the Zinc server is a great environment for creating web applications that use a rich widget set like qfe provides.
The final goal will be to create a Pharo GUI extension (probably based on Spec), where applications can be opened like MyGUIApp openInWorld. or MyGUIApp openInWeb.
The first one opens a Spec (or Morphic) desktop GUI application in the Pharo window. The second one serves the same application with (nearly) the same look-and-feel as a web application.
I will be happy to answer any questions on qfe.
Cheers
Martin