I am looking for some thoughts on how I might replace a Silverlight based kiosk system with QtWebKit. The current application runs the Silverlight application within a custom WTL program that contains WebControl (Microsoft’s equivalent of QtWebKit). The goal is to move away from the old, dieing world of ATL and Silverlight to a QtWebKit/HTML5. In the past I have played a bit with QML, so I am open to the idea of a QtWebKit/QML solution…
Here are the key features to the current application:
The core of the kiosk is Silverlight application that is hosted on an Apache server at the client site. This is vital as to allow quick updates of most of the system from the server. There are customers that will have upwards of 50~100 kiosks and the goal is that they only need to update the kiosks occasionally.
Silverlight is talking to the backend via Web Services
The Silverlight does communicate the wrapper WTL application via JavaScript, this is a feature Microsoft build into Silverlight that is being leveraged.
Questions:
Is it possible to host a QML application on a server and have QtWebKit download it, as to follow the same basic model of the current system?
From all I know, if I am using QML, it will be able to talk to the QtWebKit’s container, correct? If so, how?
The web services are all defined in a WSDL, is there any easy way to call these web services?
Looking into the pure HTML5 solution, I did find a WSDL2JavaScript tool, could that be used within a QML application that is hosted by QtWebKit?
Sam
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