hi Rob Griffin
i read u'r statement regarding using gui in applet.i am very eager to see
u'r site cantaing that applet.Please
let me know when it is up.
thankx
Pratip Gupta
----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Applet at Front, Servlet at Back?
> Hello David,
>
> We are using an applet / servlet configuration. An applet offers
> so much more in terms of user interface. In our case we are emulating
> an existing product that has a UI divided into two areas, a tree on the
> left and a pane on the right that can contain charts, trees or tables or
> a mixture of these. This UI has a richness that would be hard to do in
> HTML.
>
> The applet size is 193K, which includes 50K of images. We had to roll
> our own GUI components for some things such as a tree, grid, splitter bar,
> roll-over buttons and tooltips so that we can run in any 1.1 compliant
> browser.
> We choose to do these ourselves rather than use 3rd party stuff to keep
> the size down, our tree only has those features we need, and indeed it has
> features not available in other products.
>
> The applet and servlet communicate using HTTP tunneling of serialized
> objects.
> The servlet is a simple beast that forwards the object read onto a server
> object
> and sends back any object returned.
>
> The product has just been released as a beta and a sample should be up
> on our web site soon. I can let you know when this happens if you like.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob Griffin
> Quest Software
>
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web site: http://www.quest.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet
> > API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David
> > Hildebrandt
> > Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2000 3:34
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Applet at Front, Servlet at Back?
> >
> >
> > Hello:
> >
> > I am curious as to whether many developers are beginning to use
> > applets for
> > their GUIs (rather than HTML) as a somewhat thin client to
> > services provided
> > by beans or servlets.
> >
> > If you have decided to use this model, why? If not, why not?
> >
> > Thank you and regards,
> >
> >
> > David M. Hildebrandt
> > Lantern IT
> >
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