Hello David,
We are using an applet / servlet configuration. An applet offers
so much more in terms of user interface. In our case we are emulating
an existing product that has a UI divided into two areas, a tree on the
left and a pane on the right that can contain charts, trees or tables or
a mixture of these. This UI has a richness that would be hard to do in
HTML.
The applet size is 193K, which includes 50K of images. We had to roll
our own GUI components for some things such as a tree, grid, splitter bar,
roll-over buttons and tooltips so that we can run in any 1.1 compliant
browser.
We choose to do these ourselves rather than use 3rd party stuff to keep
the size down, our tree only has those features we need, and indeed it has
features not available in other products.
The applet and servlet communicate using HTTP tunneling of serialized
objects.
The servlet is a simple beast that forwards the object read onto a server
object
and sends back any object returned.
The product has just been released as a beta and a sample should be up
on our web site soon. I can let you know when this happens if you like.
Regards,
Rob Griffin
Quest Software
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web site: http://www.quest.com
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> Subject: Applet at Front, Servlet at Back?
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>
> Hello:
>
> I am curious as to whether many developers are beginning to use
> applets for
> their GUIs (rather than HTML) as a somewhat thin client to
> services provided
> by beans or servlets.
>
> If you have decided to use this model, why? If not, why not?
>
> Thank you and regards,
>
>
> David M. Hildebrandt
> Lantern IT
>
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