Hi Sobolanul, Yes, sorry I forgot to mention an important aspect is that the web app runs in closed environment. Web-to-go doesn't use tomcat on local machine but uses its own proprietary servlet engine to serve up pages locally. It's not impossible to implement Gears with our web app, but it would require a lot of effort since our web app is mostly thin client.
On Mar 12, 5:00 am, sobolanul <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again. > > I haven't used Oracle web-to-go, but as I saw on Oracle site: "Web-to- > Go is currently available on laptops running Windows 95/98/NT/2000.". > Gears is not OS defendant is browser defendant and also works on > laptops and desktops ;) (and on mobile devices). My question is: this > is really running a Apache/Tomcat/Oracle server suite on each user > machine to be able to enable offline functionality? If yes, I think > this is only for closed access sites not for public sites. And even if > looks hard, is not so hard to rewrite some application code to work > offline with gears. > > On Mar 10, 2:35 pm, Lemuel Alumbres <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the response. I figured that there was no way to do this but > > wanted to confirm just in case someone did get it to work. The installation > > is not a problem since we already have a mechanism to automatically install > > applications to the client machines. > > > We are currently using Oracle web-to-go for our offline implementation, but > > every time we upgrade Oracle something ends up breaking on the web-to-go > > side. And since our web application is very big, we wanted a solution that > > did not require us to rewrite most or if not all of our server side code and > > from what it looks like porting over our code to work with Gears will > > require a lot of effort. > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:54 AM, sobolanul <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > No, there is no way to do that. > > > > You know that for that you need to install Apache/Tomcat on every > > > client machine? I really doubt that any "casual" user will ever do > > > that. > > > > And yes, many of us use Gears with many web based application that use > > > a lot of server-side code (is not important if that server side code > > > is Ruby, Java, PHP, dot net, C#. etc), porting that code to Gears is > > > the same. > > > > On Mar 9, 7:21 pm, Lem <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am sure that this is unlikely but is there a way to tell Gears to > > > > serve up pages using an local instance of Apache\Tomcat rather than > > > > using LocalServer? > > > > > The reason for this is that we have a web application that make > > > > extensive use of JSP\servlets and since LocalServer is only a static > > > > content cache that serves up static content locally, this would not > > > > work. Has anyone out there been able to use Gears with a Java based > > > > web application that use a lot of server-side scripting?
