DA with Wa - Desktop Apps With Web Apps

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Software Development Lab,

Software Development & Central Engineering

Errazudin Ishak

DA with WADesktop Apps with Web Apps Technology

• Introduction

• Enterprise PHP

• Desktop Application

• PHP Desktop Development

• Comparison

• Titanium

Agenda


• Senior Engineer at MIMOS Berhad

• Software Dev. Lab, Software Development & Central Engineering

• 2009 : FOSS.my

MyGOSSCON

Me


“Enterprise == ?”


Enterprise PHP


BA

Designer

Project Lead

DBA Tester

PM

Sys. Ad

PHP Geek

TEAM

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirement

•Customer need this …•User want that …•My boss add this …•My BA... more headache …

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitecture

•Design Diagrams (Technical )•HLD•Blueprint

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureTools

•Planning•Development•Deployment

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundation

•Stable?•Framework vs No-Framework•On Your Own Frame to-do work

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patterns

•Best practice of solving probs.•MVC?

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patternsTesting

•Developer, Unit, Functional, Performance, Integration,Usability

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patternsTestingOptimization

•They want it fast•We need

•Accelerator (eAccelerator, Alternative PHP Cache, ionCubePHP Accelerator,Turck MMCache,XCache,NuspherePhpExpress,Zend Optimizer+,Zend Platform •Cache (Smarty, Zend_Cache, Memcached)

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patternsTestingOptimizationSecurity

•Prevention of harmful event(s)•Real Risk•Severe consequences

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patternsTestingOptimizationSecurityDeployment

•Develop, Test, Deploy (Test, Live)•Simple XAMPP to HA, Scalable architecture

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patternsTestingOptimizationSecurityDeploymentOperation

•Helpdesk•Monitoring•Root cause analysis•Change management

Introduction : Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patternsTestingOptimizationSecurityDeploymentOperation


Desktop Application

• Why DA using WA?

• WA : one of world’s most popular client application technology solutions

Openness (standards)

Cross platform

Develop, Deploy and Maintain (Easy)

Introduction


• Why DA using WA?

• DA

More responsive feel

Complete access to local sys

Offline functionality

Multimedia

Desktop Application


• To build web applications : People, tools, skills, and technology

• To build desktop applications : Existing resources?

• Faster deployment to production

• Maintain existing codebase (Platform)

• Proprietary tools and specialized skills

Desktop Application


• Native apps using web technologies that already mastered

• Cross platform apps from a shared codebase

• Open source, open standards

DA With WA. Possible?



PHP Desktop Development

PHP-GTK

• PHP extension that implements language bindings for GTK+.

• Provides an OO interface to GTK+ classes & functions

• Simplifies writing client-side cross-platform GUI applications.



Winbinder

• Open source extension for PHP

• Allows PHP programmers to easily build native Windows applications.



Phalenger

• PHP implementation on the PHP language into the family of compiled .NET languages.

• Provides PHP applications an execution environment, compatible with array of existing PHP code.

• Benefit from both the ease-of-use and effectiveness of the PHP language and the power and richness of the .NET platform



Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime)

• Cross-operating system runtime that enables usage of existing HTML/Ajax, Flex, or Flash web development skills and tools to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

• Adobe AIR applications support native desktop integration :

clipboard

drag-and-drop support

local file IO

system notification …more.



Appcelerator Titanium

• Open source platform for building desktop & mobile applications using web technologies

• Build applications using standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript—as well as server-side technologies




Comparison :


PHP Desktop Development Head-2-Head


Language / env.

PHP-GTK WinBinder Phalenger AIR Titanium

Platforms Linux, Unix, BeOS, OSX, Windows

Windows Windows Linux, Win32, Mac OS X

Linux, Win32, Mac OS X

Native No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Programming models

Object-oriented Procedural and object-oriented

Object-oriented Object-oriented Object-oriented

Footprint 1.8-6.5 MB 130kB 12MB 15MB 6MB

License LGPL BSD Custom License Proprietary Apache 2.0

Current status

Mature, stable Under development

Stable, Noupdates since 2008

Mature, stable Rapidly moving, stable

PHP Desktop Development Head-2-Head


Language / env.

PHP-GTK WinBinder Phalenger AIR Titanium

Platforms Linux, Unix, BeOS, OSX, Windows

Windows Windows Linux, Win32, Mac OS X

Linux, Win32, Mac OS X

Native No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Programming models

Object-oriented Procedural and object-oriented

Object-oriented Object-oriented Object-oriented

Footprint 1.8-6.5 MB 130kB 12MB 15MB 6MB

License LGPL BSD Custom License Proprietary Apache 2.0

Current status

Mature, stable Under development

Stable, Noupdates since 2008

Mature, stable Mature, stable


Titanium

• Future of Open Source RIA?

• Build applications that have :

Better performance

Full control over OS-specific UI, database access

Offline functionality, notifications, and multimedia.

Deploy as Linux applications, Windows, OSX, or all those three from one code base

1/10th the memory of Adobe AIR apps

VVIP access to the local system.

Cloud services

Titanium


• Apache 2.0 License

• Open source SDK

• Mobile: iPhone OS, Android

Titanium


• Desktop: Linux, Win32, Mac OS X (Intel)

• No knowledge of Objective-C, Java, .NET or other structured programming languages is required.

Titanium


• Enterprise applications

• Data-driven web service clients

• Web service mash-ups

• Social utilities

• Casual games

• * Cross-platform

Titanium : Destination


Titanium Platform


Titanium Developer 0.8.2

Titanium Desktop : Architecture


PHP

Platform

Process

Python

Ruby

UI

UpdateManager

Worker

Titanium Desktop : API


Analytics

App

Blob

Codec

Database

Desktop

Filesystem

JSON

Media

Network

Notification

Titanium Mobile : Architecture


Geolocation

Gesture

Media

Network

Platform

UI

Yahoo

Titanium Mobile: API


API

Accelerometer

Analytics

Database

Facebook

Filesystem

• Is a Titanium Application

• Create and manage project(s)

• Deploys code to simulators

• Developer also helps with testing and packaging for devices

Titanium Developer (Studio)


Titanium Developer


• http://www.appcelerator.com

• http://github.com/appcelerator

• http://www.codestrong.com/titanium

Resources


THANK YOU
