Help with a bet

didgemaster

didgemaster

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People of OCUK can you give me a hand

my boss at work is very sure of himself saying that there is no such thing as a "quick" web front end to an application.

I am not sure if this is true or not and come to think of it I can't think of one of the top of my head. I suppose its because the front end is like a "gateway" to the thing that does the work for example an SQL server

Is there anyone here that knows of a site that posses such an interface that I could demonstrate a quick front end because I would like to prove him wrong, something applet based perhaps?
 
Define quick and define what you're interacting with !

A really simple example is just clicking on a forum thread link here in the forums. The back-end is performing a database search (probably more than one) followed by rendering the results into a pretty set of screens. This is all happening in less than half a second when I click ... What's slow there ??? -Its way faster than I can read the contents of a thread.

If you want hardcore, look somewhere like the high frequency trading stuff that goes on in the city, or here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/LMAX.
 
Does he mean building the front end to a custom backend system. Then I would imagine he is correct. It would be impossible to have something auto generate a good front end to a database unless you had a very simple data structure and the field types governed the output.
 
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