Using tomcat as client application 2007-01-12 - By Mikolaj Rydzewski
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Danilo Cubrovic wrote:
> I have web application (java jsf+xml) that works fine on tomcat.
> I also have some significant numebr of users that use client version
> of this
> program (java applet+xml)
> In most of the part this is sthe same code except for the presentation
> layer.
> Well , ass you all know, this is pain in the a.. when you have to work
> parallel on two version plus web version is much better in many ways.
>
> What I'm intersting is next thing.
> Can I pack somehow web application and tomcat and install it on user
> client
> pc.
> (I will create setup.exe and send iton cd like client they use now)
> So when client click on shortcut on his/her pc (all of them are windows
> operated) he gets this application started via tomcat.
> Well there is trick. In order to work with all firewalls dont want to
> start
> tomcat as classic webserver but to use it as background application to
> handle requests and generate pages ...
> Is there some tomcat solution that can work like this?
I suggest you to try Java Web Start. In short it allows you to run Java
applications (swing, desktop applications) directly from the web. It
handles upgrading to news versions, firewalls (just http / https),
caching jars on client machine, etc.
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Mikolaj Rydzewski <miki@(protected)>
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