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programador_de_sonhos





PostPosted: 2004-8-10 19:22:00 Top

java-programmer, thin java cient? Hello, please, I'm searching for a Thin Java Client, for J2EE.

I want to build a thin java swing client.

How to do it?

tks

Programador
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Andrew Thompson





PostPosted: 2004-8-10 19:33:00 Top

java-programmer >> thin java cient? On 10 Aug 2004 04:21:34 -0700, Dream Programmer wrote:

> Hello, please, I'm searching for a Thin Java Client, for J2EE.
>
> I want to build a thin java swing client.
>
> How to do it?

Exclude Java applets, or any Javascript, from
being *required* by the user agent. Base your
web-app around the assumption of 'HTML', but
*nothing* more..

A 'thin client' AFAIU, means an interface to
your (web) application that requires 'a browser'
and nothing more (no JS, no Java). (Guru's
..please correct me if I'm wrong)

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Rob Shepherd





PostPosted: 2004-8-10 20:03:00 Top

java-programmer >> thin java cient? Andrew Thompson wrote:
> On 10 Aug 2004 04:21:34 -0700, Dream Programmer wrote:
>
>
>>Hello, please, I'm searching for a Thin Java Client, for J2EE.
>>
>>I want to build a thin java swing client.
>>
>>How to do it?
>
>
> Exclude Java applets, or any Javascript, from
> being *required* by the user agent. Base your
> web-app around the assumption of 'HTML', but
> *nothing* more..
>
> A 'thin client' AFAIU, means an interface to
> your (web) application that requires 'a browser'
> and nothing more (no JS, no Java). (Guru's
> ..please correct me if I'm wrong)
>

AFAIU a thin client is Software OR Hardware which provides form of access to a system
Without doing any formal processing for system. The thin client only processes what it
needs to get display info and send back commands to the server

For example we use Sun Ray thin client hardware to provide a portable desktop environment
to a solaris Workstation.

The hardware in this case is basically just a network card/graphics card/sound card/usb
controller but does ALL my processing for actually running applications is done on the
workstation. The Thin client firmware and protocol engine transports all infomation from
the server to my desktop and back...

So a thin client is a very abstract term IMHO.

to implement a thin client you need a system which users need access to, hooks in the code
to allow remote interfaces to take part in a session, a remote client which can display
the session and send key/mouse events back and a protocol engine to transport all this
accross a network.

for example the above could be respectivley

Java Application
Servlet Container, EJB
Web Browser
HTTP

in my case is it

X server / XDMP
Sun Ray server
Sun Ray desktop Hardware
Sun Ray protocol.

HTH

Rob
 
 
thufir.hawat





PostPosted: 2004-8-11 13:09:00 Top

java-programmer >> thin java cient? On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Dream Programmer wrote:

> Hello, please, I'm searching for a Thin Java Client, for J2EE.
>
> I want to build a thin java swing client.
>
> How to do it?
[..]

and I want to buy one :) whatever happened to the "internet appliance"
hype... Never mind internet appliance, how about a network appliance
capable only of logging into my noisy pc. something along the line of
smallish laptop with 802.11b/g but just a gui dumb terminal type idea.
 
 
Rob Shepherd





PostPosted: 2004-8-11 18:11:00 Top

java-programmer >> thin java cient? email***@***.com wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Dream Programmer wrote:
>
>> Hello, please, I'm searching for a Thin Java Client, for J2EE.
>>
>> I want to build a thin java swing client.
>>
>> How to do it?
>
> [..]
>
> and I want to buy one :) whatever happened to the "internet appliance"
> hype... Never mind internet appliance, how about a network appliance
> capable only of logging into my noisy pc. something along the line of
> smallish laptop with 802.11b/g but just a gui dumb terminal type idea.


http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/thinclients/index_t5000.html
 
 
thufir.hawat





PostPosted: 2004-8-12 13:57:00 Top

java-programmer >> thin java cient? On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Rob Shepherd wrote:
[..]
>> and I want to buy one :) whatever happened to the "internet appliance"
>> hype... Never mind internet appliance, how about a network appliance
>> capable only of logging into my noisy pc. something along the line of
>> smallish laptop with 802.11b/g but just a gui dumb terminal type idea.
>
>
> http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/thinclients/index_t5000.html
>

ouch, it costs more than my computer. and it doesn't look very portable.
thanks, tho.


Thufir Hawat