communication between C++ and html

[Julia Donawald]

Hi,

maybe I am off-topic with my question, so then sorry for this!

I am starting of developing an application which consists of a rather
complex graphical user-interface and a business-logic part (so that's
the usual case, I suppose ;)).

There are 4 main reuqirements for the application:
1. Time to market
2. Intuitive graphical user interface.
3. High-Performance for the business-logic, cause it includes some
computational intensive processes and algorithms.
4. Platform-independent (this criteria is not such important than die
other points).

First, we were thinking of Java as the way to go, but after some
performance tests, we came to the conclusion, that in our case java is
out of the scope.

I was now thinking of the following approach:
Using C++ for the business-logic part and HTML for the GUI. Developing a
GUI is easy in HTML and using C++ for the high-performance part seems
quite natural in a way. Maybe there is a problem in realizing an really
intuitive gui with core HTML, but in using Java-Script and some other
advanced techniques, most problems are solvable.

What do you think of this kind of solution and especially what
possibilities I have for the communication between c++ and the html user
interface, beside using CGI with an Web-Server?

Thanks for your help,
Julia

[Ian]

Julia Donawald wrote:

I was now thinking of the following approach:
Using C++ for the business-logic part and HTML for the GUI. Developing a
GUI is easy in HTML and using C++ for the high-performance part seems
quite natural in a way. Maybe there is a problem in realizing an really
intuitive gui with core HTML, but in using Java-Script and some other
advanced techniques, most problems are solvable.

What do you think of this kind of solution and especially what
possibilities I have for the communication between c++ and the html user
interface, beside using CGI with an Web-Server?

It's a solution I have used before and continue to use. It's very easy
to make your C++ application work as a CGI and generate the required
HTML on demand.

Ian

[BobR]

Ian wrote in message <11***************@drone2-svc-skyt.qsi.net.nz>...

Julia Donawald wrote:

What do you think of this kind of solution and especially what
possibilities I have for the communication between c++ and the html user
interface, beside using CGI with an Web-Server?

It's a solution I have used before and continue to use. It's very easy
to make your C++ application work as a CGI and generate the required
HTML on demand.
Ian

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Bob R
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