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- Moving toward the goal of having a web-based administrative client for Fedora (as well as the possibility of a host hosted Fedora application) I've started to investigate web-based GUI frameworks. The first of those is Adobe's Flex. I was able to create a simple application that has some admin client-type features with a small amount of xml in a relatively short amount of time.
The capabilities to connect to REST or SOAP-based web services quickly is impressive. The drawbacks of requiring a Flash player and the development tool being a commercial product do dampen my enthusiasm a bit, but I was happy to find that applications can be built using only the open-source pieces of Flex. Of course, Open Laszlo is a completely open-source alternative to Flex, so that's next on my list to consider.