Hi Ewald What we do a lot that works well is to expose the necessary domain API via some web services, and then have the Webstarted app (or any other rich desktop/mobile app) use the webservice. This is much more flexible, scalable, and all the the other *ables than directly connecting your client-side app to the database.
These days a lot of tools and frameworks exist that makes it easy to wrap your domain-layer with a web service layer. Regarding your applet vs webstarted app question: applets are just plain ugly (for that matter, any rich UI app running in a browser is ugly). Webstarted apps just looks much better (or can, if they are implemented well). And you will not gain anything on the applet side: it still has to be signed (just like webstart apps), and it still has to make the database connection, as Brendon said. In both cases the jars of the app is downloaded to the client side and executed on the JVM there. Groete, Herman Herman Lintvelt Polymorph Systems - User Interface Excellence Office: +27 (23) 347 3881 Mobile: +27 (82) 339 6932 Web: www.richclientgui.com Twitter: hermanlintvelt Skype: hermanlintveltza On 2011 Jan 7, at 8:49 , Ewald Horn wrote: > Hi Brendon, > > thank you, I will upload the Webstart files to our web server and try > to get it running that way. The primary reason I do not want to go for > a Web app is that I also have a few graphs that are interactive (the > user can click on items to drill down) and I really don't feel like > rewriting these in Javascript or Flash. Java2D is currently being > used for the "animation", so a webapp would require quite a bit of > re-engineering. > > Thank you, I hope I can get the Webstart application working from our > webserver. > > Regards > Ewald Horn > > -- > 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/
