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26/09/2002 15:30:08
James Hill
Jim Hill Productions
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Internet applications
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00704920
Message ID:
00704938
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>I have a project which was originally going to be run in a call centre, now I have been asked if the same project can be run on the web and have anyone on the internet get access to it. I don't know the answer. Can it be done? How do I go about it?

Big question. Some ideas.

You could run the app on the web mostly unchanged by buying http://www.citrix.com/. This runs a copy of your app on the webserver. Screens are sent over the web in a PCAnywhere style.

The other route is to rearchitect your application to use the web. This could involve splitting your application into 2 or more tiers, then using ASP as a front end to call COM components, or using a 3rd party framework like www.west-wind.com. You could also leave your app as a Windows app, but have it fetch and send data over the internet using something like XML. Your best way to get up to speed on the issues and work involves to to check out the articles at Rick's site http://www.west-wind.com/Articles.asp and consider buying his book.
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