> From: Dola Woolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> What I'm primarily thinking about is what the user
> would need to have/install in order to use the
> program. And I want the user to simply click on a file
> and for the program to just run (provided the jre is
> installed).
Tomcat is capable of running without any formal installation, although
you'd have to be careful about where it put its working files and how it
unpacked WARs if you were distributing packed webapps. There have been
a couple of threads about getting the whole thing to run off a CD
without touching the host machine's filestore at all; I think that would
be difficult to achieve as Tomcat, at least, needs to be able to write
to temp filestore.
I disagree slightly with your characterisation of the approach. I agree
with you that a browser is often the simplest way to *display* a GUI;
however, one needs to provide code behind that browser-based GUI, and
I'm not aware of anything that really solves the problem of deploying
that code to the messy universe of many users' computers rather than to
the tidy universe of central Web servers.
- Peter
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