Do you think we can assume Java 6 will become ubuiquitous while we are developing our project?
Are you able to talk to java from the browser?
- eg can a user enter an email address and send the message there?
David IB
At 21:01 03/08/2009, you wrote:
Hey there
Just to let you know that I've now got a java program that launches (in-process no display) the webserver, pointing to a seperate project in Eclipse which holds one of the Struts applications (MailReader). I can post things back and forth and display forms for entry. I can add subscriptions to my new user and have them displayed in the browser.
It will be trivial to launch the browser too. As seen on this page, it is trivial to open up the default browser of the host system ( http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/javase6/desktop_api/ ) On the other hand that requires Java 6. Not sure if we want to do that? We could alternatively, in the distribution, distribute batch files, the first line of which starts the server, and the second line which invokes the default browser. These would be OS specific. I'm not sure what version of Java we want to use but Java 1.5 is probably what i expect most people to have. I guess we could distribute Java 6 with the app too if we really wanted to use that.
I've already got code to launch the database so that shouldn't be too difficult to add in either. I'm happy to add a few screenshots, but i've played around with the application and it looks like it's working. I may try and tie that in, but I'm 95% sure we can run this fine, that is if we decide to go that way for developing step. All we would distribute is a standard java application (some jar files basically, no extra scripts, etc.)
Chris
2009/8/3 Tyndale STEP Project <TyndaleSTEP@gmail.com >
- Basically is just like a web server, except it can started/stopped from an application, but it can also be used as a normal server to host a website on the internet.
- I should be able to get an application that kicks off Jetty, and java database off, then load the default browser and requests a page or two. It may not be this week though, but I'll have a stab tonight, and then another stab possibly in the week after next... I'm afraid, I've got another holiday coming up and may be out of touch for a while.
- Chris
- 2009/8/3 Tyndale STEP Project <TyndaleSTEP@gmail.com >
- Chris has annotated Overview of Programming issues with some comments about Jetty.
- He pointed to two discussions:
- The discussion here talks about it mainly as a rival to Tomcat
- The discussion here talks about using it to call a browser and send code to it.
- Does Jetty also respond to requests from the browser? (I read both discussions quickly, so I probably missed this).
- Chris - do you think it would be within your skills to produce a proof of concept application using Jetty?
- Eg a java application which opens a browser and sends a "Hello World - How are you?" with a Yes/No option box,
- and responds "Oh Dear" or "Great!" depending on the option picked,
- where the two messages "Oh Dear" or "Great!" are written in the java code, and NOT in the web page with the option box.
- If we can write a program that does this, then we can link to JSword from a browser,
- and request verses or searches from the browser and have them displayed in the browser.
- We can then add new code either by adding java to JSword or by putting Javascript in the web pages (probably both).
- Guys, can you think of any other way to create this little application?
- David IB
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