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Re: Deploying an Applet

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From: Richard Wilkman
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 00:00
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Joe:

It also requires the plug-in which supposedly has it's own caching
mechanisms and hooks.  If the stuff in the plug-in works for this, why
go to a 3rd party?

-Rich

Joe Grace wrote:
> 
> Vineet and Rich,
> 
> there's a really cool tool which allows you do this.  It also automatically
> updates your applet files from the server.  I haven't used it (yet), but I
> believe it's a pretty sharp tool.  It's also free and open source.
> 
>     http://demo.pssg.com/pvcj/
> 
> Caveat is that it runs applets as apps (two-edged sword).  If that caveat works
> for you, then I think you'll find pvcj interesting.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> = Joe =
> 
> Richard Wilkman wrote:
> 
> > Vineet:
> >
> > Persistence of archives is a violation of the security model for
> > applets (though Javasoft is making a little progress there with the
> > plug-in).  You would have to stick the archive in the appropriate
> > directory for each browser on the client machine so that it could be
> > picked up "magically".
> >
> > You would then repeat this for all your users the next time you had an
> > update of your code.
> >
> > -Rich
> >
> > Vineet Gomber wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I Have a large jar file which has to be downloaded everytime which is not
> > > very user friendly.
> > > Is there any way that can be permanently stored on the Client machine and
> > > recognized
> > > by the browsers?
> > >
> > > Any help on this will be really appreciated.
> > >
> > > Also, I wanted to get some information on how the browsers cache these
> > > files.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Vineet
> > >
> > > (vkgomber@duke-energy.com)
> >
> > --
> >
> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > Rich Wilkman
> > Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
> > Borland JBuilder Team
> >
> > If you see something that looks like an opinion up there,
> > it's mine and mine alone.
> >
> > Mail sent to me from the newsgroups won't bounce but will
> > be ignored.  If I have time, I'll respond, but you  have
> > a better chance if you confine your posts to the newsgroups
> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Rich Wilkman
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Borland JBuilder Team

If you see something that looks like an opinion up there,
it's mine and mine alone.

Mail sent to me from the newsgroups won't bounce but will
be ignored.  If I have time, I'll respond, but you  have
a better chance if you confine your posts to the newsgroups
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