can't find a suitable application server

[Diez B. Roggisch]

krishnakant Mane wrote:

> hello,
> I have read about zope and found it very good.
> but right now I am a bit confused about one project I have just procured.
> it is supposed to be a simple 3 tear application.  the front end will
> be a thin client which we will develop using wxpython.
> We are using MySQL for the database and I need to find out a suitable
> application server where I can do just the following.
> 1. write my business logic which will actually be the workhorse.
> 2.  send data to the thin client in form of either text or lists or
> tuples as required.  I want my thin client just to take the data and
> recieve the data.
> 3.  an application server that will process data coming from the thing
> client.  this layer will fire the queries etc.
> 4.  send the processed results in the forms mentioned in point number
> 2 (sorry if I am redundent).
> I thought zope is too heavy and complex for this task and zope is
> generally used in places where the data is too dynamic and the system
> very complex.
> I am any ways using MySQL for the rdbms which is more than sufficient
> so no need for a object oriented database like what zope has.
> can any one suggest me what to do?
> right now I get an impression that I must create sockets and send and
> receave data through that socket to the thin client and put the actual
> business logic on a seperate machine or on the database server what
> ever.

Use Pyro. It will make your server appear as a simple python object. It also
comes with a name-service for look up of your actual server.

Diez