I created the same scenario using terracotta, see terracotta.org.
Terracotta makes from several vm's (in your case the desktop app and
the web server, eg tomcat) seem as one. There is not a specific
programming model to be learned, it's just Java (TM).
So you can use the event listeners on your be
Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into it. But here the important
thing is, the communication is initiated by the browser, and then the
client just continues. Otherwise client have no clue when to start
communication. As I said, I do not know if xmpp takes care of that.
But I will definitely l
I'd recommend a Jabber (XMPP) solution -- most often used as a chat
protocol, it has a lot of flexibility, and it's great for this kind of
direct communication. Smack is a well-known Java implementation.
There seem to be several projects out there that offer AJAX to XMPP
bindings, which could hand
