Howdy Joel
I think that will be on a client-by-client, project-by-project basis…
Some clients will stop upgrading, at least for a few versions because the
overhead of completely rebuilding their CWP solutions won’t justify the few
added features they get in a new version of FMP - it’ll only be when they stop
being able to get new licenses which they need that they will be ‘forced’ to
upgrade...
I think some will move away from FM - I have a few clients for whom 75%+ of
their ‘offering’ is CWP, and it will be more cost effective for them to have me
build them admin interfaces in PHP and move their data storage to MySQL /
Postgres / something open source…
For me there is no compelling reason to change languages from PHP - I’ve been a
PHP developer for more than 20 years, and while I’m passingly proficient in
Python, and can find my way round a node.js application, there’s no reason to
move - recent versions of PHP have made significant improvements, and using
modern frameworks like Symfony and Laravel make develop quick and relatively
easy.
So… I expect that once the Data API stops being a trial (presumably in FMS 17,
given the trial expirey date) I’ll look to write a Doctrine driver for that (in
the way I have for the current PHP API) and continue to build Symfony based
apps that talk to FM using that… assuming that the Data API costs are palatable
to clients. I’ve been quite busy recently converting IWP solutions to CWP and /
or building apps that could have been done with WebDirect, but the long-term
cost of licenses for WebDirect connections puts people off… if the Data API
ends up being expensive, then it’s possible more people will move their web
applications to, for example MySQL, and use ESS to manage that data internally
in FM.
Finally, I think the hope that the XML never gets taken away is wishing for a
bit much - that is the last ‘free’ interface to an FMS, so I’d be pretty sure
its days are numbered!
My 2 EUR cents worth, no warranty express or implied, YMMV, usual disclaimers
apply, etc, etc…
Cheers
Steve
On 15 Feb 2018, at 20:57, Joel Shapiro <info@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all
Now that this list is awake again, I thought I’d ask a question:
What plans (or thoughts) do you have for when FileMaker eventually removes*
the XML API/WPE from FMServer?
- Remain on a version of FMS that still has XML (i.e. stop upgrading)
- Keep writing PHP but switch to using the new Data API
- Switch from PHP to some other language with the Data API
- Switch away from FileMaker
- Hope that the XML never actually gets taken out
- Other…
*NOTE: The XML API has not yet been deprecated, and will presumably remain in
at least the next couple/few/… versions of FMS. (Runtimes have been
deprecated for years but not yet removed.)
-Joel
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