Yes. There is no difference between Applets and Webstart applications other than:
a) You can embed an Applet b) You can potentially talk to the webpage itself. The applet resides on your local machine and you'll need to open a port to the database. If the database is on a different server, you'll need to sign the applet or get cross site scripting working. Personally, if there was any doubt these days, I'd write a pure webapp. Brendon On 7 Jan 2011, at 8:33 , Ewald Horn wrote: > Hi Jaques, > > thank you for the reply. > > I was under the impression that a Webstart application is treated just > like a normal Java application, so for it to access the remote server > database, I would need to open the database port on the server. This > does not appear to be a requirement with an Applet as the Applet can > directly access the database on the server as it also resides on the > server. > > Am I completely missing the boat here? > > Thank you > Ewald > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CTJUG Tech" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en > For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ > For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Tech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/
