Linus Tolke wrote:
Treating the ArgoUML as something that can be updated and extended
while running is a very appealing thought. It has the distinguishable
feature thought that the user is dependent on the internet access and
on the web site where the extensions reside.
Well, yeah… thanks! (I think?)
On the other hand, running through the JavaWebStart version of
ArgoUML we are already dependent on the internet access and the
concept of updating without the user taking explicit action is already
there.
Whoa, you've lost me. What is the nature of JavaWebStart? Is this like
the JRE? Or a lite JRE designed to run embedded in web page (via
something like <object>)?
One of my ideas when making the "new" module loader was to allow the
user to specify more modules to download later on. There is still a
lot of work to have this working properly and when experimenting with
this I got the feeling that the JavaWebStart support for this is not
as good as it could be and that to do more exotic JavaWebStart things
it is required to distribute some JavaWebStart functions jar so I
didn't go further with this. If you read the code I think you can see
the remnants of a second part of the Edit => Settings => Modules page
that contains that are not yet "downloaded" and that could be searched
for.
You (or anyone) are welcome to investigate to see what can be done to
improve this.
/Linus
This would be an exciting thing to work on, as far as I'm concerned. :)
However, Although I know the syntax of Java and my first OOP classes
were done in Java, I'm afraid I'm still pretty inexperienced. :)
And I would like to finish my current work on the DocBook 5 conversion
before I take on another task. I expected my DocBook 5 conversion to
happen quickly, but now I'm getting schooled in the complexities of Ant
builds and in getting a diverse library of software tools to work
together in harmony. :)
But--I AM excited at the prospect of exploring new ground--even if I'm
pretty sheepish about it!
But to go back to your comments--I'm not sure if your overall message
was something like "Good idea, but not feasible right now," or "Ideally
good, but practically not so good…" I guess my fuzziness about
JavaWebStart has a bit to do with that. Could you enlighten me?
-- Tony | "Zearin"
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