I thnk Netscape will deploy 2 versions of NS 6. One edition without JRE 1.3 and
one edition with the JRE (obvious a bigger download). Not sure about Mozilla
yet, think it will just use the JDK on your box through the Open Java Interface.
One question: Do pack your applets in JARS or do you use Java Push
technology to sent the smallest class down and then dynamically load the rest
as and when they are required.
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Netscape 6 runs JRE 1.3 natively. So there is a browser in the pipeline
running swing. I know that Netscape 6 has had some problems, and I'm not
sure when it is slated for release. I imagine IE will not support swing
natively until after it supports C#<g>.
We run swing in our applets. The session tracking can be painful, but after
many hours of pain, we have it under control (mostly).
While there have been many references to avoid swing in this thread, you
will notice that no one has elaborated. Swing has some good stuff, like
JTree. Also we are feeding FormulaOne (swing) spreadsheets in applet plugin
from servlet, and we wouldn't have it any other way. BTW, you could not get
Excel-like spreadsheet functionality in a browser from plain ole html via
servlets.
I think the main reason to avoid swing (therefore plugin) is that if your
site is designed for just passing through, then no one is going to suffer a
6 MB download of a plugin for a few minutes of thrills. But our application
is targeted for users that will spend a significant fraction of their day
working our applets. Under these conditions, its not that unreasonable to
have the users get the plugin.
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