On Jan 26, 4:25 am, Steven Herod <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, Merapi, seems to be the worst of both worlds. Deploying that is > likely to suck.
Yeah, deploying a Java app and an AIR app together, that is then going to do interprocess communication over a localhost socket so as to act like a single application, is by no means ideal. Especially wouldn't be great for consumer style applications. For enterprise, well, there we can make an installer process that takes care of everything. In our case we have to run Oracle Forms (which is implemented as a Java applet) for legacy stuff anyway, so we're already stuck with having to use Java. But in time that requirement will go away. And in time AIR will add an API to launch other applications. People doing stuff with USB, UDP, Java libraries like for the WII or Lego Mindstorm robotics are finding Merapi useful. And one particular capability that Merapi has that makes it somewhat worthwhile is support for AMF marshaling of objects bi-directionally between Java and ActionScript3. The bottom line, though, is you're right - a bridge solution like Merapi is a clumsy way to go. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
