Re: why still need applet?

Everything technology has some tradeoffs, one has to check all the needs
and performance into picture. If one wants to give a very good interface
then obviously will use applet but download time and all will also be
there.

Regards
Bhushan


-----Original Message-----
From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet
API Technology. [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of viju
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: why still need applet?


but applet seems to take lots of time to load,... what can be said on
this.... Vj

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Weller" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday,February 25,2003 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: why still need applet?


> > > > with servlet and jsp, it's so easy to build the web page, why
> > > > still need the applet? in what situation, applet is more
> > > > suitable?
> > >
> > > Some reasons (and there are a lot more):
> > > - ability to keep permanent connections
> > > - ability to have a full-blown GUI with all a desktop app can have
> (there
> > > are lots of things you cannot model with HTML and CSS)
> > > - ability to put logic on the client (keyword "thick client")
> > > - independence of the browser (In most cases a complex, dynamic
> > > client
> UI
> > > can be build simpler when using an applet than by using
> > > client-side scripting langs)
> >
> > Any document to support these points..?
> >
>
> Uhm, no...
> But how do you keep a permanent connection to a server/servlet without
using
> an applet ?
> All other points I listed could be done by scripts and HTML controls.
> But how do you implement a complex GUI in a browser-independ way? If
you're
> using client-side scripting, you'll have a different script for almost
every
> browser you want to support. And what if scripting is disabled? It's
> just much simpler to use an applet in such cases, it's not the only
> way. Maybe it's just because I don't like JavaScript or how browser
> vendors implement it in their products :-D
>
> -mw
>
>
________________________________________________________________________
___
> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] and include in the
body
> of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST".
>
> Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html
> Resources:
> http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html
> LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html

________________________________________________________________________
___
To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] and include in the
body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST".

Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html
Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html
LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html

___________________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] and include in the body
of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST".

Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html
Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html
LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html