local software using web technologies

Question

Is it possible to write a local software (read/write local files) using web technologies such as google web toolkit?

Answer 1

On windows you can create an hta "html application" that gives JavaScript elevated privileges. This only runs on IE.

You can deploy an embedded web server with all your code on it if you need server side processing. this would be typically done with an installer. The client could be a IE com object in a windows form app. This gives you all the power of IE (lol) in an executable

Answer 2

You mean something like Hudson, a webapp you drop into a web container (tomcat, jetty, ...), and it will read/write files on that machine.