OK glad someone else said that because I don't get this either but didn't reply because I assumed I must have misunderstood. Dola, apologies in advance if I have got the wrong end of the stick, but are you saying that you want to install an app on many PCs, and the app does not need to interact with a separate server machine, and you plan to just require that they have JRE and a browser installed?
I don't see how you will do that without installing some kind of dynamic webserver on each PC, whether that be apache-hpptd, tomcat, or other, plus the web application (which needn't be servlets, it could be perl based). And if you are going to do that, what's wrong with installing tomcat? Tomcat meets your needs - the user can just click on a desktop shortcut which points to the http url of the home page of the app and voila, the app starts. > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Crowther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:23 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Minimal server > > > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
