totoro;174608 Wrote: > I can understand one rationale for keeping the controller a webapp, > which is just that you don't have to install anything on the client > machine (esp useful for things like pdas, I would guess). > > But the user already has to install a server, so why not give them a > native app to run the thing on? I'm not a huge java fan, but doing it > in java would make the platform support relatively easy. > > IME, it's a lot easier to get stand-alone apps to do interesting new > things than it is with web apps. I never have to do front end > programming for real, so I realize that my experience isn't necessarily > worth much :). But all my prototype guis these days are straight C#, and > I don't miss having to f&^% around with tomcat or whatever to get out a > prototype demo.
A well written client-server app will look just like any stand-alone app. The confusion is in associating client-server with the "web browser" experience. A client server app has the major advantage of allowing multiple GUIs on multiple platforms controlling the same thing. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32104 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
