wow...finally...some validation! Of course, the real trick is going to be calling the applet classes from a servlet and be able to handle the method args.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: Davanum Srinivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Project from hell? No. You are on the right track :) -- dims On Fri, 14 May 2004 16:05:58 -0400, Galbreath, Mark A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so...you feel my pain.... > > My idea is to remove the applet functionality to a Struts framework. The > framework would handle the back-and-forth between the client and the Web > service. > > Am I being too simplistic? > > Personally, I think I have been given an impossible task. > > Mark > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis Sosnoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 3:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Project from hell? > > Galbreath, Mark A wrote: > > >EXACTOMUDO! :-( > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Sherman, Dennis (END-CHI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:12 AM > > > >Your task sounds to me suspiciously like someone at an executive level > >having heard about web services, and thinking they've found the silver > >bullet to all their problems. > > > > > Then you've got two choices I'd see as reasonable. The first is to use > an actual web service, with the clients converted from applets to > standalone applications (perhaps deployed using JWS, a great solution). > You could use JMS or SMTP for the actual web services, to get the > queuing advantages you said were important. This should let you preserve > much of the UI and avoid a total rewrite. > > The second alternative is to either modify your existing applet-based > code or design a pure HTML approach that talks to servlets, with the > servlets implementing queuing behind the scenes. I don't know how much > this would help with your basic problems, though. > > Using an applet based frontend for web services is possible, but really > only makes sense if you've already got a web service that you just want > to access from the applet - I really wouldn't recommend this as an > up-front design. > > - Dennis > > -- > Dennis M. Sosnoski > Enterprise Java, XML, and Web Services > Training and Consulting > http://www.sosnoski.com > Redmond, WA 425.885.7197 > > >
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