WebStart? No, no, we covered this at the start of the thread: WebStart and Applets are the *one* java technology that have ceased to be viable due to apple's decision to drop JVM support on out-of-the-box macs. WebStart is a crappy solution, because in a year or so from now that will only run on Windows + an assortment of posixy OSes that are very rarely used as a desktop OS. If you're going to make such a single-OS solution, you might as well write in C#, though I would strongly suggest you don't, as betting on Windows remaining the 90%+ marketshare OS is not a particularly safe one, IMO.
Annoying, yes. But them's the breaks. On Oct 29, 12:08 am, 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
