Next Previous Contents 12. GUI FrontEnd Tool for PostgreSQL (Graphical User Interface) Web browser will be the most popular GUI front-end in the future. It is recommended that you migrate all of your "legacy" Windows 95/NT applications to Web-based application. You should use Web-Application Servers like Enhydra (Java based) or Zope (Python based) or OpenACS . Best web-scripting (and compiling) language is PHP+Zend compiler PHP is extremely powerful as it combines the power of Perl, Java, C++, Javascript into one single language and it runs on all OSes - unixes and Windows NT/95. The best tools in the order of preference are - Enhydra at Enhydra plus Borland Java JBuilder for Linux http://www.inprise.com Zope at Zope OpenACS at OpenACS PHP script and Zend compiler at PHP+Zend compiler X-Designer supports C++, Java and MFC http://www.ist.co.uk/xd Qt for Windows95 and Unix at http://www.troll.no and ftp://ftp.troll.no Code Crusader is on linux cdrom, freeware based on MetroWorks Code Warrior http://www.kaze.stetson.edu/cdevel/code_crusader/about.html Code Warrior from MetroWorks http://www.metrowerks.com GNU Prof C++ IDE from (Redhat) Cygnus http://www.cygnus.com Borland C++ Builder for Linux http://www.inprise.com Borland Java JBuilder for Linux http://www.inprise.com Language choices in the order of preference are - Java but its programs run very slow and has license fees. C++ is 5 times faster than Java!! Python (Powerful object oriented scripting language). PHP Web server scripting, HTML, DHTML with Javascrpt client scripting and Java-Applets. Perl scripting language using Perl-Qt or Perl-Tk Perl Database Interface Omnipresent and Omnipotent language C++ (GNU g++): Fast CGI(written in GNU C++) with Javascript/Java-Applets as Web-GUI-frontend. GNU C++ and QtEZ or QT GNU C++ with Lesstiff or Motif. There are other tools available - PostgreSQL has Tcl/Tk interface library in the distribution called 'pgTcl'. There is an IDE (integrated development environment) for Tcl/Tk called SpecTcl. Lesstiff Motif tool ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/lesstiff*.rpm Vibe Java/C++ is at http://www.LinuxMall.com/products/00487.html JccWarrior ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/jcc*.rpm Tcl/Tk http://www.scriptics.com Object oriented extension of Tcl called INCR at http://www.tcltk.com Visual TCL site http://www.neuron.com Visual TCL Redhat rpm at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/visualtcl*.rpm http://sunscript.sun.com/ http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/ ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tcl8.0a2.tar.Z Java FreeBuilder ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/free*.rpm SpecTCL ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/spec*.rpm Java RAD Tool for PostgreSQL Kanchenjunga http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/kj/kanch.html Applixware Tool http://www.redhat.com XWPE X Windows Programming Environment http://www.identicalsoftware.com/xwpe/ or at http://www.rpi.edu/~payned/xwpe/ ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/xwpe*.rpm XWB X Windows Work Bench ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/xwb*.rpm NEdit ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/nedit*.rpm You can also use Borland C++ Builder, Delphi, Borland JBuilder, PowerBuilder on Windows95 connecting to PostgreSQL on unix box through ODBC/JDBC drivers. Next Previous Contents