Hello Sriram and Simon,
I have ignored the discussion on servlets + swing during the last few
days as i never thought they would fit into some thing so amazing like
this. Does it mean servlets can talk to some exciting GUI on the client
Side?? Tell us more on this !! What are the potential application
areas??
thanks
-Rao
> ----------
> From: Sriram Narayanan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 3:02 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: I'm amazed myself ! -> Re: Servlet with Swing
>
> Hello Simon,
>
> I did try out the code sample with lots (an I mean lots..) of
> skepticism, bu was shocked when I was a JOptionPane popup asking me
> for input !
>
> My assumption was that the string representation of the JOptionPane
> would be displayed
> e.g. bla bla bla
> javax.swing.JOptionPane[,0,0,0x0,invalid,layout=javax.swing.BoxLayout,
> alignmentX=null,alignmentY=null,border=javax.swing.plaf.BorderUIResour
> ce$EmptyBord
> erUIResource@19d1,flags=32,maximumSize=,minimumSize=,preferredSize=,ic
> on=,initialValue=,message=JOptionPane
> message,messageType=PLAIN_MESSAGE,optionType=DEFAULT_OPTION,wantsInput
> =false]
>
> But what happened instead was a JOptionPane popped up, asking me for
> my name, and when I did enter it, the page was rendered with the
> string
> bla bla bla Sriram
>
> How does this happen ?
>
> Of course, I did have the Java 1.3 Plugin installed, but how can s
>
>
> Sriram
> 5/18/01 8:29:00 PM, Simon Chia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >i'm not saying that we need cool UI, i'm just supprize that servlet a
> server
> >side programming can do such thing. without the help of applets
> >here the code
> >
> >import java.io.*;
> >import javax.servlet.*;
> >import javax.servlet.http.*;
> >import javax.swing.JOptionPane.*;
> >
> >public class SomeServlet extends HttpServlet {
> > public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
> > HttpServletResponse response)
> > throws ServletException, IOException {
> > PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
> >
> > String display;
> >
> > display = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("enter name");
> > out.println("bla bla bla " +display );
> >
> > }
> >}
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Sriram Narayanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 4:30 PM
> >Subject: Re: Servlet with Swing
> >
> >
> >> If you want to display "cool"User interfaces on the browser side,
> then use
> >Swing in applets. And since you insist on communicating with a
> servlet,
> >communicate
> >> using URLConnection.
> >>
> >> Really, servlets are intended for server side work, and can be used
> as
> >such only, and not for cool UI's like you have been saying for the
> past few
> >days.
> >>
> >> Sriram
> >>
> >> >Simon Chia wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> no no ... u can give it a try ur self.. i'm talking about
> servlets..
> >not
> >> >> applets, u can give it a try...
> >> >> once the page loads, it loads the swing files also. u can use
> swing to
> >get
> >> >> user input and display it out on the screen.. u can even use to
> verify
> >> >> username and password(something which i havent try).. its a
> world of
> >wonder
> >> >> u can try with swing and servlets.
> >> >
>
>
>
>
>
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