Hey!
Nic, I disagree again. We have one developer that went the Javascript Servlet
(JS) route. It took him seven months to complete an interactive product. You
could arguably say to me that he was a lousy / slow programmer. I can't prove
one way another, except to say that the amount of interactivity that he needed
necessitated reams of JS code. I took a day looking it over. With a good IDE
like IBM's VisualAge for Java I can conservatively say that I could have
accomplished the same in about two months. I would end up with a hunk of code
that was OO as opposed to the JS route, with full power of the Java language
and much easier to maintain. I agree that for simple interactivity the JS
route is a good quick-and-dirty way, but for anything more than simple products
your best route is applets, IMHO.
Does anyone have an interactive site using the JS route on the web where I can
go for a look?
Danny Rubis
Nic Ferrier wrote:
> >>> Gary Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/22/99 10:29:00 PM >>>
>
> >But what if I really need to use Swing
> >(mandated by my boss)?
>
> Get a new boss.
>
> Swing is terrible - you're applet will be terribly slow on just about
> any platform you care to run it on and using the Java Plugin (a must
> for Swing) is like using a shotgun for making pasta.
>
> Seriously.
>
> Swing is a great idea but it just requires too much processing power.
> You'd be much better using AWT if you *have* to go the applet route.
>
> And if you still insist on using Swing the best thing to do is use
> HTTP as the protocol, otherwise you end up with all sorts of firewall
> problems.
>
> But at the end of the day the web just isn't built to work with this
> sort of code. Tiny applets work ok but even then you get problems
> using the plugin. The real power with servlets is to use JSP and
> JavaScript cleverly to make the user *think* they've got something
> truly interactive.
>
> The low resistance of this method is what makes it so cool.
>
> Nic
>
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