Wow, I like it! This isn't as crazy as it sounds. After just watching the V8 talk from I/O, I've learned the JavaScript library is implemented in JavaScript (preloaded in a heap snapshot).
The efficiency level they are hitting now makes this seem like a very sensible approach, especially for Chrome, etc. If the WebSocket standard ever materializes, it could be even better (and standards based), and act as a last-resort fallback on all platforms. I'm curious if it performs well enough for general use on Firefox? I suspect it's quite a bit slower right now. On Jun 5, 12:47 pm, Matt Mastracci <matt...@mastracci.com> wrote: > On 5-Jun-09, at 10:08 AM, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > > > > > 2009/6/5 Matt Mastracci <matt...@mastracci.com>: > > >> While this subject is up... > > >> Has anyone considered writing the OOPHM client stub as a Java applet > >> and using netscape.javascript.JSObject to deal with the JS > >> references? > > > Please no java applets. They only recently started working on 64bit > > linux and I woudn't call them stable. > > Fair enough.. :) > > I haven't had much experience with applets on OSX, so I'm not sure > what the state is on this platform either. > > I've also been playing with a 100% Javascript version of the OOPHM > client stub as well, but it's been put on hold now that I've fixed the > bug in the binary component that was stopping me from instantiating it > from chrome:// documents. It basically uses GWT and some XPCOM > bindings that I've generated for our product previously to implement > the client side of things. It might be a good alternative to having a > binary component for FF, which is by far the browser that requires the > most cross-platform compilation. It's no more than a proof-of-concept > right now, but if there's interest from others I can share the code > and/or work on completing it. Since it's written using GWT, it's just > a matter of porting the current server-side BrowserChannel over. > > Matt. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
