Thanks Cortlandt & Eric, one of our guys is working on the applet version of the application. HotJava was not a choice as it is on it's death bed.
I will take a look at the Flash to figure out it can do. But one thing to consider is that, the clients will not be connected all the time and they only dial-up when they reach a threshold of data. An ideal solution would be the resident application directly writes html to the browser on the client device and hooks into the post messages and collects the data when the user submits the page. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Eric Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:54 AM To: JRun-Talk Subject: RE: Control browsers from your Java application Flash may be the answer to your problem. JRun 4 ships with the Flash Remoting technology that enables Flash clients to communicate with JRun using the Flash Gateway. For more information on this technology in JRun 4 please refer to chapter 24 (Using Flash with JRun) in the JRun Programmers Guide Eric Eric Anderson Senior Engineer JRun Product Support Macromedia Incorporated -----Original Message----- From: Cortlandt Winters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 12:43 PM To: JRun-Talk Subject: Re: Control browsers from your Java application I can think of a bunch of things you could try, but nothing that I would want to do. http://java.sun.com/products/hotjava/ would be a good example, the problem (other than the fact that it's being end of life'd) would be for active x controls and plug-ins, which I don't imagine would work if the client will be using it to view the web in general. This is a good example because that kind of thing will always pop up. Still if you are just using it for your own application rather than to work as a general browser as well, then that may be worth looking into. If you just use an applet and try to control the browser that way it won't work on IE mac because the javascript communication between components and appets and the browser doesn't work. If you try something like a swing interface you have the mammoth J2 download and no pre osx mac runtime. I can think of some other avenues to try, also, but nothing any better than these. None of which I'd really like. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ravi Vedire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JRun-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:38 AM Subject: Control browsers from your Java application > I am just curious to find out if any of you had any experience with Java > classes/libraries that let you control a browser from with in your > application. > > The intended use of this would be to write an application that resides on > the client machine, that is not online, but uses browser to interact with > the user. As of now we have a web application that gathers data from the > users. The idea is to develop a client based application (offline) that does > the same thing with similar/same UI. This application would gather data in > an offline mode, dial in once in a while and upload the data. > > Thanks in advance for your help! > Ravi > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
