Thanks guys, very helpful your responses. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alejandro, > > As Sandro pointed out, signing your JARs will allow your application to > access the local file system (assuming that the user chooses to trust your > code). However, generating the files on the server is also a valid option. > Though it may require more server resources, you won't need to sign your > client JARs, and you won't need to include as many JARs on the applet's > classpath. On the other hand, generating the files locally may produce a > better user experience. > > So either approach would work - it is really up to you do decide what is best > for your app. > > G > > On Oct 5, 2010, at 4:54 AM, alejandro Ayuso wrote: > >> Hi >> >> So, I'm almost sell on the idea of using Pivot for a project. The only >> thing holding me is the possibility of giving clients the option to >> save on their computers a generated PDF or XML file. How is this >> possible from an Applet? >> >> I was thinking of asking a web service to generate the content and >> reply with the URI with the generated file, but this would consume >> resources on my server and since I'm running in the client I would >> like to take advantage of that. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> ========================== >> Alejandro Ayuso >> ========================== >> Systems Engineer >> Linux User: 438022 >> My Blog: http://monocaffe.blogspot.com > >
-- ========================== Alejandro Ayuso ========================== Systems Engineer Linux User: 438022 My Blog: http://monocaffe.blogspot.com
