Actually, in preparation for this, Sun has been spending a bunch of time working on their Web-Start software. http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/index.html
It just is a link you click on that downloads a small JRE to the user's desktop as part of the app, then your java program gets sent down also. -Lkb On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Justin H. wrote: > Thanks for the info. Actually, I am not asking b/c Im looking > for any software in particular; Im asking because I work > for a small software company and we are trying to prepare > for the absence of Java support in Internet Explorer 6. We > do CBT, and we have a delivery system which relies heavily > on the use of Java applets within the user's web browser. > Because of the direction MS is taking with IE 6 and Windows > XP, we are considering moving away from this model > and instead making the client side application a small > downloadable EXE program (small because the meat of our data and stuff > would still be on the server side). > > The vast majority of our users are on Windows, but we also > dont want to alienate *nix and Mac users. So Im pretty much > just looking around at the possibilities. If we do move > to the EXE client app, I want to see if there are any > ways to support other OSs short of porting the code. > > I dont suppose anyone else is working on anything similar, > and/or making plans for how to deal with the new phase > of Microshaft products? > > --Justin. > > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, John Hunter wrote: > > > >>>>> "Sach" == Sach Jobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Sach> Yeah, same, but i've never got it to work quite right. > > > > I've run some windows apps under it, but, I agree, it can be a pain to > > configure and set up. I haven't tried it in a while so I hope that it > > is getting better. > > > > Justin, you may want to do a search of google.groups of posts to > > comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine for the name of the application you > > want to install. This will let you know ahead of time if you have a > > prayer. > > > > Just out of curiosity: what do you need to run? You might find a > > workable application under linux that will do the same. > > > > JDH > > > >
