Yes, I had forgotten about WebStart. I would still have to store data on their local drive and deal with backups, upgrading the data, and other issues. I'm not as strong at Swing as I am with the web technologies so perhaps that is why I lean toward HTML5. The upgrade path is there for WebStart, but I'm worried about how to deal with storing data, setting up cron jobs, and fixing problems when they occur on a machine that I don't have access to.
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Rob Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 28, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Robert Casto wrote: > > > At the risk of starting another flame attractor, what would use suggest > to use for the desktop? > > > > > > So I keep going back to the HTML5/Server option since it is easier to > develop, but more important, I can deal with customer issues much more > easily. I think developers sometimes worry too much about a technology and > forget that users are the reason for the existence of the software. You have > to keep them happy and be able to deal with problems quickly without > spending all your time and resources doing so. > > > > I am very interested in what others may have to say about this. Perhaps > I'm missing some technology that would give me the best of both worlds? If > so, I'll have found my next research project. > > > Well, being a Swing guy it shouldn't surprise you to hear me recommend > JNLP/Webstart. > > > In our organization, it's given me the best of both worlds. > > Clients use the web on our intranet to start their desktop apps. I can make > changes to the code and upload it to the HTTP server, and the next time the > user runs their desktop app, my changes are downloaded to their desktop. > > Of course, all the pieces our within our corporate intranet, from database > to application to web servers, including our client machines. So we do have > more control over our environment. Your milage may differ. > > > Rob > > > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com -- 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.
