Re: deployment of application to web

["Chris Abney" <chrisabney@hotmail.com>]

Alfreda,

We can thank those demon spawned seed and Satin himself (the baby Bells and 
ATT) for the slow internet speeds that lead to such problems.
But really, even with high speed internet access, "fat client" applications 
take a long time to load.
This is why Java has a bad rap on the client side.
I worked on one fat client that took somewhere around five minutes to load.
It was OK because it would only be loaded once or twice a week, at most, and 
left running all the time.

There are many ways to convert a standalone app to a web app or distributed 
app.
Converting the class that has "main" in it to an applet can give you a fat 
client web application.
I think Sun's Webstart might be a good solution to this problem.
Sun has been pushing the idea behind Webstart for a while but it has never 
seemed to gain popularity.
Maybe the learning curve is too high?  (I wouldn't know.)

Then there is always client side scripting, server side scripting, servlets 
and the rest.
These require a lot of re-write of an existing application though.

With all due respect, this general problem is really bigger than the 
specific one you have at hand.

I would personally love to see this handled in such a way that allows 
developers to reuse already coded standalone Java functionality in their 
distributed systems.


Chris

PS. You could be having some technical problem that is not letting your app 
load from the browser at all.
But I don't know what would cause that without more info.


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Alfreda Duffin" <freets@bellsouth.net>
To: <ajug-members@ajug.org>
Subject: deployment of application to web
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:01:16 -0400

Hello,

I have a problem, I have an application that I created using visual café. It 
is a shopping application and displays images of the products, takes 
customer and product information and loads it to an Access database. I have 
a friend who wants it put on the web. I am not sure of the best way to do 
this.

I have changed the first frame of it to an applet and when I run it in Café 
it works fine and even picks up the other 4 frames without my having to make 
them into applets. But when I tried to run it in personal server, it takes 
forever to load and I just stop it. I’m not sure if I’m missing something in 
the logic or if this is not the best way to web enable this application. Are 
applets good for this type of thing, or should I just redo it in 
ASP/JavaScript or something? I was trying to get it done the quickest way 
possible and figured I could just change the frames to applets in Visual 
Café.

Thanx.

Alfreda Duffin



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