Hi,
Will Iversion (of Mac OS X for Java Geeks fame)
wrote up an article for O'Reilly's Java site (ONJava)
titled "Create Desktop Applications with Java-Based
Web Technologies".
Although Will just talks about "classic" web
technologies such as HTML, URLs, HTTP and so on this
article is first to promote the idea to create classic
standalone desktop apps using web technologies that
you install on your very own machine and that you use
offline without any internet connection whatsoever.
Will asks: "Instead of throwing out your skill set,
why not learn to marry the concept of user-installable
desktop applications with familiar web technologies?"
and underscores his point with half a dozen desktop
apps out in the wild living out the dream such as:
* Radio Userland - a web publishing tool using HTML
for its user interface
* BEA WebLogic, JBoss, and other web application
servers use a browser UI for administration and
configuration. Apple recently announced that it will
ship JBoss with Mac OS X.
* ZOË - a web application that runs in the
background, grabbing and indexing all of your incoming
and outgoing email, is one of the more innovative
contenders. You do most of your work with your email
client as normal, but you can also open up ZOË's web
interface and plumb all of your email's associations.
* and more
Will writes: You can download and install all of
these applications onto your desktop computer, but you
interact with them via your web browser. Variously,
the tools above either expect to reside in a web
server, bundle a server, or ship with a built-in
server.
Full story @
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/09/17/macosxjava.html
or http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/4181
- Gerald
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