Danny,
I have to disagree. We have just reached the alpha test phase of a project
that uses an applet to communicate with a servlet. The applet mimics an
existing Delphi client and provides a rich set of features with a 206K
download. These include:
- displaying line, area and bar charts
- displaying data in tabular format
- displaying data in tree format
- allowing the user to respond to messages from the server
The applet uses Java 1.1 which does restrict you somewhat but we have
just tested it in the following environments
- Netscape on Windows
- IE on Windows
- Netscape on Solaris
- Netscape on Linux
and it works well. Download speed over a 28.8 K modem is acceptable
because the subsequent traffic between the applet and servlet is
small in size (a few k).
Rob Griffin
Quest Software
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web site: http://www.quest.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet
> API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kito
> Mann
> Sent: Friday, 7 January 2000 4:55
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: POSTING to a servlet
>
>
> Danny,
>
> You need to remember that applets are not always desirable or
> feasible. The
> browser wars really limited the feasibility of applets outside of
> conrolled
> Intranet environments... (that may change with AOL's shipment of Java 2
> Standard Edition and Navigator, but that will take time...).
>
> I generally prefer variations of HTML clients over applets
> because you have
> a lot more flixibility, especially when you consider the fact
> that PDAs and
> cell phone-PDA hybrids are coming into the picture as potential clients.
>
> Kito D. Mann
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>
>
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Wednesday January 5, 2000 06:56 PM
>
>
> Hey!
>
> You guys are working way too hard trying to make servlets and HTML
> do interactive processes.
>
> IMO, when interactivity get this complicated you are better off with an
> Java applet or appication.
>
> Sans adieu,
> Danny Rubis
>
> Nic Ferrier wrote:
>
> > >>> Steven Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04-Jan-00 11:24:28 AM >>>
> > > Nic Ferrier wrote:
> > >> It sounds to me like you should redesign your system to take heed
> > of
> > >> this.
> >
> > > Also yup. There are some workarounds you can try, but the
> > only
> > >way is to use javascript, and you will quickly find that unless you
> > >can restrict the range of clients you need to support, you're
> > opening
> > >a very large, very messy can of worms.
> >
> > There is one other way....
> >
> > You could use frames, with a checkbox in each frame. This is a lot of
> > frames though, if you're dealing with a lot of checkboxes, but this
> > kind of approach does work for mimicing the sort of client-server
> > population behaviour that you have in VB and so on.
> >
> > When each frame is a seperate document you can submit them to and fro
> > without concern for the other frames being affected.
> >
> > Simple JS can keep the frames talking to each other.
> >
> > Nic Ferrier
> >
> >
>
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