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Re: Something to read over lunch: Eclipse IDEin thebrowser

Luis Colorado skrev den 05-02-2008 18:52:
I tried webstart, and I liked it. Our main problem was that some users had dated versions of Java, so it didn't work correctly. However, we are trying to move away from thick-clients, even if they are as convenient as webstart. This days it seems like web apps can pretty much do anything via AJAX.
You can enforce a specific Java version in the specification file (JNLP? JPNL? JLNP?). Hopefully that will resolve this "please update your java" thing.

I did a small Java application which was to be deployed to lots of users. I ended up in using fat-jar to create a single JAR, and JSmooth to create an EXE (which also knew to check and update to Java 6) which could then be placed directly in the users startup folder. Worked quite well for us.

Ajax can do a lot, but you have a lot more control over the environment and power with a thick client.

All depends on what you need to do.


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