Re: [slightly OT] Web Applications
- From: "Dan Freeman" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:15:05 -0800
I don't think there's a definitive definition of the term "web application".
In your particular case, you have a Win32 "fat" client application that
consumes web services. The web is involved, for sure, but it's not the only
thing.
Dan
Villi Bernaroli wrote:
> We (a small italian based software house) are developing VFP
> WebServices (WS) since 2002, and these WS are then called by our
> applications via the internet. These applications have a rich
> client, which is a VFP-built user interface, and not a browser
> interface.
> One of our customers told us recently that our applications are
> NOT Web Applications since the interface doesn't run in the
> browser. So I googled around for a definition of Web Application
> and what I found is really disturbing: it seems that almost any
> definition of Web Application specifies the browser interface as
> a requirement.
> Until today I always believed that an application, to be called a
> Web Application, had only to be capable of functioning through
> the internet, and the thin client was just a choice, not a
> requirement.
> Who's right? My customer?
.
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