It sounds like the webapp is read only system (since it is going on a 
cd). If your UI is link based (no forms/sessions) - could you use a web 
sucker (like wget in recursive mode) and make a static copy of the site?

Otherwise - flash is great for things like this. (But it is reinventing 
the wheel)


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> I am afraid it is not as as much easy as you think...
> 
> 1) Will your customer agree to run these applications on their computer?
> 2) What if they are not using a PC (Mac?) or if they are not using Windows (Linux?)?
> 3) To run JSP you need a JDK, not a JRE.
> 4) If you copy JDK, Tomcat & MySQL files on the CD, will it work?
>    In order to run they need :
>    - DLLs in Windows system directories;
>    - keys in Windows registry;
>    - write access to some of their files...
> 5) What about AUTOEXEC.BAT?
>    It will do nothing if you put it on a CD : it needs to be in C:\, and there is 
>already one there...
> 6) What if your customers have problems running your CD?
>    Will you create a hotline ;-) ?
> 
> And I did not yet spoke about some of these programs that may interfere with your 
>customers programs.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> André POWROZNIK
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murat Buyukkal ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 15 July 2002 13:44
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: RE: Tomcat & MySQL Run On Read-Only Media ..
> 
> 
> User will not install anything. I will put pre-installed directories of JVM,
> Tomcat and MySQL on the CD with a batch file that runs them with !some!
> parameters. Everything is up automatically Imagine?
> 
> For example:
> 
> \JDK
> \JDK\bin
> ...
> \Tomcat
> \Tomcat\bin
> ...
> \MySQL
> \MySQL\bin
> ....
> \DATA
> \webcontents
> 
> AUTORUN.BAT (for Windows machines) is at the root of the CD.
> tomcat\bin\tomcat --some-parameters
> mysql\bin\mysqld-nt --some-parameters-that-open-only-specified-ini-file
> 
> start \webcontent\StartMyAppUp.html... 
> 
> and so on....
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 2:21 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Tomcat & MySQL Run On Read-Only Media ..
> 
> 
> I understood very well what he means.
> 
> I simply tell people will not be happy if they have to install or to run
> many programs to browse his CD...
> 
> My personal opinion is : as a customer, I would install (fear of viruses,
> lack of competences, lack of time...) a JVM, Tomcat & MySQL to browse a CD.
> 
> Would you?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> André POWROZNIK
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mohammed Omar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 15 July 2002 23:16
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Tomcat & MySQL Run On Read-Only Media ..
> 
> 
> The user will install them ,  the man means that the user will run tomcat
> and mysql services from the CD .
> You did not get what he means .
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 4:06 AM
> Subject: RE: Tomcat & MySQL Run On Read-Only Media ..
> 
> 
> I would put only static documents on the CD if I were you...
> 
> You won't look like professional if you ship a CD containing a JVM, Tomcat &
> MySQL to install.
> 
> Personally, I would not install it.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> André POWROZNIK
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murat Buyukkal ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 15 July 2002 10:29
> To: Tomcat-User@Jakarta. Apache. Org (E-mail)
> Subject: Tomcat & MySQL Run On Read-Only Media ..
> 
> 
> I have a web application containing Servlets & JSP pages and uses data on
> Oracle 9i Server. Data is like a product catalogue. I plan to periodically
> distribute this system (to people who do not have enough bandwidth to access
> to our LAN) on CDROM media which contains binaries of a JVM, Tomcat Server,
> Servlets & JSPs and MySQL Server running with special parameters and data
> dumped into MySQL from Oracle. Is there anyone who accomplished this task?
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