Another approach you can take is to look at messaging applications. In particular we here investigated Kenamea a while ago (http://www.kenamea.com/index.html). Kenamea is a messaging platform that allows you to develop rich applications using DHTML and it communicates with a backend in such a way that it guarantees transmission of data even if the user is not connected to the network all the time.
Check them out. The above one sentence description probably does not do them justice so see on their site the full description of what they are all about. Cristian > Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:11:44 -0700 > From: Ravi Vedire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Control browsers from your Java application > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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. > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
