You are probably correct. I am overstating the case by saying that Sun might
drop support for the plugin. After XP, it will be the only way to run
applets. (Netscape 6 has also switched to the plugin). But in the long term,
I don't see good reasons to choose the plugin over JNLP. Applets have better
browser support (mainly, a beefier implementation of showDocument() and a
java-to-javascript library) than JNLP, but that's only because Sun has
intentionally limited JNLP-to-browser communication. If Web Start (or JNLP)
supplied a better browser communication API, there would be almost no reason
to use the plugin.
Just my 2 cents...
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank D. Greco
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11/14/01 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: Swing deployment options
At 10:40 AM 11/14/2001 -0500, Farwell, Paul wrote:
>We currently deploy our applications using the Sun java plugin. My
concern
>is that Sun might drop (or greatly limit) support for the plugin.
Why do you say that? If anything, Sun is increasing support
given
Bill Gates screwing the world by removing the JVM from the XP
browser.
You can download the early access version of the XP JVM-plugin
from
the Sun site now.
>At any
>rate, the simplicity of the Java Web Start (JNLP) architecture appeals
to me
>when compared to the fragility of the plugin running in a web browser.
Agreed. Running full apps in a browser is fraught with peril.
If XP catches on, users will start to see full applications
running
outside the browser... Microsoft didn't pump $50M into Groove
for nothing.
I can see MS acquiring Groove in a year or two...
Btw, both Sitraka and JWS use JNLP.
Frank G.
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