Is the VB system you are using 2-tier?
Moving into an N-tier architecture has many advantages that would facilitate you
writing many clients.
Assuming that a middle tier is in place, you could write many clients for your
system.
Mabye some have a Swing GUI that communicates via sockets.
Other clients are web based using servlets. You might use JSP as a means to
manage your servlets and HTML. Applets and could certainly play a role in this,
but they don't have to - you can use HTML only if desired.
Servlets are most (probably read 'only') useful if you have a middle tier, as
they provide a gateway to the business logic..
--shawn
Kapil Goyal wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have to port a VB oracle system to Java.
> I have a screen that is very interactive like any other VB screen.Like
> suppose I select an item from a list then data about that item is populated
> in the fields.It also has a lot of buttons which when clicked give pop up
> box in which you can fill in values and then submit.
>
> Now I understand that this kind of functionality can be implemented thru
> applets.Can this also be done thru servlets and JSP(no applets).Is there a
> way to use say java buttons and say list box etc dirctly in servlets or JSP
> wothout using applets.
> My client doesn't prefer applets.
>
> Bye
> kapil
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