Re: swing talking to servlets...

[Paul Callahan <callapm@yahoo.com>]

Its not really that complicated.  Did this for a
high-volume app a couple years back.

One of the things that you will need to determine
however, is the communication protocol from Servlet to
thick client.  Previously I developed a rich Java
AWT-based app which communicated to a servlet via
HTTP.  We chose HTTP b/c our client could consitently
poll the servlet (or a suite of servlets for that
matter) on a regular basis as well as make specific
requests.  Another option is to use a TCP/IP
sockets-based connection.  This has its advantages,
but if you have a lot of clients, it might not the be
the way to go (plus there are firewall issues).  

Finally, you can go a little more heavyweight and use
an RMI or Web Service based soln...  A little more
work from a communications standpoint, but it could
pay dividends later when you want to expose that
business functionality to another backend process or
client.

Hit me back if you have some more specific
questions...  In addition, I would suggest google'ing:

"applet servlet communication"

That should bring you back a ton of articles to check
out.

Thanks,
Paul Callahan

--- Lee Chalupa <lchalupa@seelink.org> wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> An application I am working on needs rich client gui
> features and also 
> needs to talk
> to servlets. Something like a swing gui running in a
> browser that talks to 
> servlets.
> 
> Any suggestions about the best way to do this?
> 
> What references do you recommend?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> lee
> 
>