Applets do not suck. Here is what I experienced. I currently work on a SAP web portal. Two functions that I had to do was make a report in PDF and then mail that PDF report as an attachment. Well guess what, SAP uses its own proprietary XML parser that does NOT work with FOP. After tons and tons of research, the only thing I could was to process my xml and xsl-fo data using an APPLET! I was able to generate a byte stream out of this data, and then send the serialized data to the servlet for displaying on to the browser window. That was one thing. Second thing was to take this data and email it as an attachment. Yet again, this can not be easily done using the SAP portal. What to do? I modified the same applet, this time I added the features of java mail. I was able to actually embed my bytestream data into my mail data without specifying any attachment. This mail was sent from the APPLET (not servlet). There you go full functionality. Of course I had to use a signed applet, but gosh darn it the applet did it.
-----Original Message----- From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Galbreath, Mark A Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 4:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why Servlet? Sorry to see you are so jaded...I was being seriously appreciative. -----Original Message----- From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 12:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why Servlet? Thanks for reaffirming that sarcasm is lost on you... Galbreath, Mark A wrote: >Thanks for reaffirming the point. > >-----Original Message----- >From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java >Servlet API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 12:33 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Why Servlet? > > >Galbreath, Mark A wrote: > > > >>Because applets sucked. >> >> >> >> >> >Like applets were meant to provide the functionality that servlets now >provide.. :-/ > >_______________________________________________________________________ >____ >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > >Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html >Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html >LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > >_______________________________________________________________________ >____ >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > >Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html >Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html >LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
