Hi Aaron >Actually Merlin will work very well for this sort of application. I >have a couple applications (Merlin and Fortress) which are very >similar. In fact, you can run the whole thing inside of Merlin. Thank you for this encouraging answer, Aaron! Actually, I am working through the examples. My way of learning is studying examples and trying to understand them.
>Your frame can either be an actual Avalon component itself, or you can >embed Merlin in the frame. Either approach is workable. What are the pros/cons for the two strategies? I think, the first solution is given in the composition tutorial, isn't it? Do you think you could share an example/real life application for the second solutions with me? >With the use of the repository package, you can actually get away with >out using WebStart at all (unless you _have_ to use WebStart for some >reason). I'm actually in the process of converting one of my webstart >applications over to using the Avalon-Repository package instead. It >allows you to do just about everything you can with WebStart. I think the central repository mechanism is genius (opposite to some other opinions). >As for WebStart, Stephen had a working Merlin/Webstart example at one >point. I'm not sure what state it is in now. I think webstart has the ability to generate zipdiffs. I think this is great too in order to minimize traffic. I think the repository component has to be replaced by webstart. If there is an example available here, I would appreciate it. >http://avalon.apache.org/repository/ At this stage I also have to think about an alternative to the plugin mechanism mentioned initially. I could imaging that an Avalon driven plunging-mechanism is simply reduced to configure which artefacts should be loaded, instead of putting them into a plugin-directory. The Avalon Repository Reverence Implementation might come in here handy. If you have experiences with configuring plugins, I'd be interested in these too. Thank you for your time Daniel Frey
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