>>>>> "Cynbe" == Cynbe ru Taren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Might be nice if -everything- were done through the
> browser+[signed]applet mechanism and network protocol: This would allow
> such Linux applications to be run from just about any Windows or Mac box,
> and possibly some or all of the new dumbed-down browser-capable set-top
> boxes due out soon. (Always nice to lead the technology curve a bit in
> the design phase.)
Hmm... What do the signed applets have to do with remote/networked
administration? For purely local-only admin, it makes some sense but a
server-based solution gives local and remote capabilities. The
administration of the machine is much better handled through e.g., Java
servlets running in e.g., Apache on each machine. You could then support
either an HTML or a Java applet interface (or both).
I'd like all of the configuration utilities provided by the RedHat
control_panel plus SNMP, remote shutdown/reboot, file upload/download,
network time management (clockspeed/ntp), distributed task execution,
etc. :-)
[...]
> I'm likely to be doing something at least vaguely along these lines: I
> want to use browser-based Swing widgets as the remote GUI client for a
> distributed multi-user application server I'm developing. If a generic
> mechanism were developed for allowing server-side apps to interact with
> client-side Swing stuff, I might be interested in hopping on board...
Um, er, RMI?
Take care,
John
