Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Qu0ll" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Microsoft Spartan will support Applets Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:24:44 +1100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <550b185d$0$2970$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <5510c401$0$287$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <551133f7$0$2953$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <5513cabf$0$2829$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: cnUgraYpUwFZ7dIYXoY6dA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V15.4.3555.308 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 15.4.3555.308 Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:31391 "Andreas Leitgeb" wrote in message news:slrnmhar31.uoi.avl@login.logic.tuwien.ac.at... ---------------- Java in the browser... but that isn't what webstart does. Ok, it might download a .jnlp file from the web, and that will get "executed" by the javaws utility, but once the .jnlp file is there (and an icon placed on the desktop), then there's no more connection to the web browser. Now, tell me more about how downloading a big platform-specific(*) .exe or .dmg or .apk or .tar.gz is better than downloading a small .jnlp and have that download only the *new* parts of the big application. *: and it's usually not only OS- and OS-version specific, but also 32/64- bit'ness-specific, and maybe specific to some more aspects of the local system... ------------ Java Web Start is absolute mess and a devil of a thing to get working and stay working. It relies on there being a JRE on the client system which is not the way of the future. Oracle does not want you to use it and is doing everything they can to steer you away from it so if you want to keep battling away with it without any official support, then go right ahead... -- And loving it, -Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct) _________________________________________________ Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com [Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me]