> Unless you are talking about setting up some kind of "app store" and using > Tomcat to do that? but in such a case, the issue would not be about Tomcat, > but about creating an "app store webapp" running under Tomcat. Or? ~ Exactly! Where is an (or the?) "app store webapp" running under Tomcat? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Web_Start ~ Some key benefits of this technology include seamless version updating for globally distributed applications ... ~ Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP): ~ Updates of the software download from the Web become available when the user has a connection to the Internet, thus easing the burden of deployment. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I would add that you could run it on any browser backed by a JRE (any browser!) and from any compliant java web server. Other than the little obsession google has about constantly being on your face/"being reality", becoming some sort of "Internet goverment" ~ > The whole concept however seems to me a throwback ... > ... And service providers, instead of developing a web application once for > one standard browser platform, now have to invest in creating 3 different > redundant "apps" in order to cover their cool clients lifestyle choices. It seems strange to me that nobody seems to raise any objection to this gigantic waste of resources. > Or is that my fossilised brain at work again ? ~ This is also exactly how I feel about it. I have seen that before in technology, we are going now through the "talking dog" phase ;-), then people will start making sense by asking themselves. Well, what it is actually saying? Does it make sense? ... ~ I find really odd that "while Android Market keeps 30% of your app price and gives you the remaining 70% ..." and the percentages is not what I find odd, but the tacit fact that it is google the one "keeping" and "giving". ~ I see things technological getting uglier and uglier. Oracle "buying" Sun, Oracle suing google, Apple suing Samsung ... so I thought there might be some "legal" issues developers are avoiding, but it doesn't seem to be the case. As of today: ~ $ date Tue Oct 23 04:31:07 UTC 2012 ~ there certainly are "alternatives": ~ http://www.getjar.com/ http://www.amazon.com/b?node=2350149011 http://slideme.org/ http://www.appbrain.com/ http://www.1mobile.com/ http://www.papktop.com/ ~ So, again, where is the "app store webapp" running under Tomcat, Jetty, or any other servlet container? ~ Are we starting such a project? ~ lbrtchx
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