OpenLaszlo Database API Spec
Max Carlson has posted a database API spec to the OpenLaszlo development mailing list:
The notion is to have a common REST API for Laszlo to read form and communicate changes to remote data sources. The plan is to create a special Laszlo dataset that knows how to speak this protocol and can automatically sync with the back-end. The first implementation will likely be in PHP and support SQL databases such as MySQL. Later implementations could be built on other platforms - I'd love to see one built on Rails. It's important to note that the protocol is designed to be general enough to work with any data source that has sets of records - it's not necessarily tied to SQL databases. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!