This is a newbie email.
I've been using basex for some time for its xquery engine (which is awesome) but never in production or for web development. I have some small projects coming up and looking at it for the db side of a web app I just noticed RESTXQ - looks really cool!
I'm not really a developer but I use xquery every day at work and so would love to use it - exclusively if possible. Does restxq mean that you can serve a site with no client (php, ruby, etc) in between the db and the html?
basex <-> html
That would be so simple and fun, and quite useful for a blog or other not-too-huge type of thing.
Or is that totally crazy for security reasons?
Colin
Hello Colin,
Thanks for your feedback and your excitement about XQuery!
Your inquiry is neither newbie-like nor crazy :) We at BaseX, too, love developing completely in the X-Stack. We use RestXQ quite extensively in commercial products and do basically everything with XML-technology. So typically we have BaseX as a persistent layer and use XQuery in combination with RestXQ to implement the business logic. We also use XForms (e.g. using xsltforms or betterforms), which is very nice to create forms. Also, using the development stack feels quite natural, as HTML is also just a XML dialect and so you always use the same technology.
Cheers, Dirk
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Colin McEnearney <colinmcenearney@gmail.com
wrote:
This is a newbie email.
I've been using basex for some time for its xquery engine (which is awesome) but never in production or for web development. I have some small projects coming up and looking at it for the db side of a web app I just noticed RESTXQ - looks really cool!
I'm not really a developer but I use xquery every day at work and so would love to use it - exclusively if possible. Does restxq mean that you can serve a site with no client (php, ruby, etc) in between the db and the html?
basex <-> html
That would be so simple and fun, and quite useful for a blog or other not-too-huge type of thing.
Or is that totally crazy for security reasons?
Colin
BaseX-Talk mailing list BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
Thanks! That's very interesting. So, in a live site, how is the login to basex handled? Out of the box, requesting from localhost:8984/restxq/ you get a login prompt. Is there a safe to make this publicly viewable without another layer in between?
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Dirk Kirsten dk@basex.org wrote:
Hello Colin,
Thanks for your feedback and your excitement about XQuery!
Your inquiry is neither newbie-like nor crazy :) We at BaseX, too, love developing completely in the X-Stack. We use RestXQ quite extensively in commercial products and do basically everything with XML-technology. So typically we have BaseX as a persistent layer and use XQuery in combination with RestXQ to implement the business logic. We also use XForms (e.g. using xsltforms or betterforms), which is very nice to create forms. Also, using the development stack feels quite natural, as HTML is also just a XML dialect and so you always use the same technology.
Cheers, Dirk
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Colin McEnearney < colinmcenearney@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a newbie email.
I've been using basex for some time for its xquery engine (which is awesome) but never in production or for web development. I have some small projects coming up and looking at it for the db side of a web app I just noticed RESTXQ - looks really cool!
I'm not really a developer but I use xquery every day at work and so would love to use it - exclusively if possible. Does restxq mean that you can serve a site with no client (php, ruby, etc) in between the db and the html?
basex <-> html
That would be so simple and fun, and quite useful for a blog or other not-too-huge type of thing.
Or is that totally crazy for security reasons?
Colin
BaseX-Talk mailing list BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
Hi Colin,
Thanks! That's very interesting. So, in a live site, how is the login to basex handled?
You may specify a default user and password when starting the http server. This can be done either with basexhttp and the -U and -P flags [1], or in the web.xml file when running BaseX as web application [2].
Hope this helps, Christian
[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Startup_Options#BaseX_HTTP_Server [2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Web_Application#Configuring_Database_Access
Out of the box, requesting from localhost:8984/restxq/ you get a login prompt. Is there a safe to make this publicly viewable without another layer in between?
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Dirk Kirsten dk@basex.org wrote:
Hello Colin,
Thanks for your feedback and your excitement about XQuery!
Your inquiry is neither newbie-like nor crazy :) We at BaseX, too, love developing completely in the X-Stack. We use RestXQ quite extensively in commercial products and do basically everything with XML-technology. So typically we have BaseX as a persistent layer and use XQuery in combination with RestXQ to implement the business logic. We also use XForms (e.g. using xsltforms or betterforms), which is very nice to create forms. Also, using the development stack feels quite natural, as HTML is also just a XML dialect and so you always use the same technology.
Cheers, Dirk
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Colin McEnearney colinmcenearney@gmail.com wrote:
This is a newbie email.
I've been using basex for some time for its xquery engine (which is awesome) but never in production or for web development. I have some small projects coming up and looking at it for the db side of a web app I just noticed RESTXQ - looks really cool!
I'm not really a developer but I use xquery every day at work and so would love to use it - exclusively if possible. Does restxq mean that you can serve a site with no client (php, ruby, etc) in between the db and the html?
basex <-> html
That would be so simple and fun, and quite useful for a blog or other not-too-huge type of thing.
Or is that totally crazy for security reasons?
Colin
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