Re: Something to read over lunch: Eclipse IDEin thebrowser

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.

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Luis Colorado skrev den 04-02-2008 16:49:

For instance, let's take BIRT. As I understand it, BIRT is an Eclipse-based query/reporting tool. To me, just thinking of deploying an Eclipsed-based tool to my users makes me shudder.

But what if I could have zero-deployment through the web? Then, those Eclipse-based application could immediately become available to my users.

With a bit of magic (for the native libraries) it should be quite simple
to deploy RCP applications through Web Start.

Please note that we have had a lot of "interesting" issues with Web
Start, so you may want to consider one of the alternatives. I have not
myself experimented with those so I cannot make any recommendations.