Hi all, sort of an off beat question: what's the best cross-platform library for a local web server, that could effectively make a standard GWT app into a desktop app? Ideal would be super light weight, and just allow users to run the app offline, with local data. Language could be Java, C++ or Python.
If curious about why such a library would be desired, some background at the end of the email... Thanks for the help, Brett *** Background: I'm about to build an app for researchers to browse and analyze large scientific datasets. We want to permit two uses: -- Web version: users can browse/analyze common public datasets over the web -- Local version: users can do the same browsing/analysis on their own data set, *without* transferring the data to the server. The plan now is to build a desktop app for this. I'd love to make it a browser app instead, with GWT as the front end. If we went this route, we'd have to provide some software download for the local version. Here are the options I can think of: 1 -- Local version is a completely separate app. Hope to avoid this so users get the same interface on web/local. 2 -- Use Gears (or Adobe Air). Avoided because that would require transferring server side analysis code to javascript (or Actionscript). (Right?) 3 -- Ship an executable that starts a local web server. User views app at http://localhost:12345/ in the browser. (Any others I'm missing?) I am trying to assess the feasability of #3. The ideal workflow of our app would be: -- Researcher checks out our site in the browser and tries it out. Likes it, clicks the "Try this on your own data" button -- Downloads executable with mystery web server described above :) -- Double clicks executable and a minor GUI shows up with a "Get started!" button -- User clicks, and the app is loaded in the browser at http://localhost:[whatever port]/. The app looks the same as it did online with the same functionality, except the "Select data set" option lists local files... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
