[Helma-user] sharing code on the server and client sides

[Joshua Paine]

Peter Michaux wrote:
> writing everything in another language like Java and compiling down
> to JavaScript like GWT does

Don't trust a product a company releases for developers but doesn't 
actually use themselves. Google doesn't build anything with GWT--why 
should you? (They acquired it whole from some other company and then 
released it with a new name.) Google *is* using JavaScript on Rhino in a 
Rails-like framework in some places (probably not released yet?) though.

> I'm curious what other bits of common (or uncommon) client-side
> functionality that Helma developers have been able to share with the
> server-side.

That's all I've thought of as well, except that for any AJAX-type stuff 
it's trivial to pass around JSON, since everything's JavaScript. But you 
can do more elaborate versions of what you've described: try Showdown 
(JavaScript port of Markdown) for humane text formatting or write 
something to abstract form member access so you can share 
[almost?--depends] your entire form validation logic between client and 
server.

-Joshua