Good morning,
We're excited to make available an exciting new way to package up your
OpenBD apps. We are calling it
OpenBD Local
You can read more about it here and download it:
http://openbd.org/local/
This is a new way for you to package up your OpenBD Web App and have it
run locally on a users desktop, complete with a system-tray icon for
launching it. It ships with everything your users need, including an
embedded JRE and Jetty. You just supply your OpenBD web app.
Our dear friend Mats has been testing for us and gone much further and
developed a complete installation script for Windows using the Nullsoft
Scriptable package. You can read more about how to do this at the
OpenBD Manual prepared by Mats
http://openbd.org/manual/?/local_nsis
So what does this mean?
In a nutshell, it allows you to package up webapps that maybe are
filling a specific niche or requirement. Because you can restrict you
webapp to just the local desktop machine you can do things for the user
that wouldn't normally be possible from a remote server. For example,
imagine building a system to index all specific files on a users desktop
and offer up a rich webapp to manage this (MP3 player comes to
mind). Another use is specific utilities that you may want to give
certain users to run.
Or even better, a very quick way for people to try our yourself
beautiful software without all the hassle of installing Java, Jetty and
OpenBD. Just download and run.
We believe in getting OpenBD into the hands of as many people as
possible and negating all the headaches normally associated with such a
deployment.
Let us know what you think,
alan
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