Does Java SE (Standard Edition) offer a way to make its programs work online beside the Applets? Or is the applet the only way to do that?
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You could use Webstart to allow users to launch your Java application from a website and have the application communicate back with a server. As with applets, Webstart applications run in a sandbox by default and hence you should look into signing your application jar to allow it to communicate over the network.
You could also consider GWT or Servlets / JSP if your aim is to write a web application rather than deploy a standalone app. It all depends on what you're trying to achieve.
Adamski
2009-07-28 07:37:15
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Java is trying to make a comeback on the client-side with a new technology called JavaFX.
Not sure if that is not just an applet under the hood, though.
And then there is WebStart, which launches Java applications from a website (although they then run outside of the browser).
Thilo
2009-07-28 07:39:00
The general response to JavaFX seems to be deafening in its silence.
skaffman
2009-07-28 07:44:10
AFAIK JavaFX can be used in all the different Java GUI contexts, including Applets and WebStart. It is in some ways a replacement for Swing, although for more complex things you might still need to mix in some Swing. It all compiles down to Java bytecode.
Peter Becker
2009-07-28 07:48:43
I heard about JavaFX, but I really hava no idea where does it fit in the Java world.
MAK
2009-07-28 09:18:34
Back in 2008 they showed alot of it at the Java One conference, it provides support for alot of multimedia, video/audio playback/recording, it mostly reminded me of flash in the visual sense, being used to build a pretty application.
Knife-Action-Jesus
2009-08-03 16:28:08