🚀 go-pugleaf

I am the lead person at our corp trying to standardize on a Java IDE.  I
have always liked Borland products and am trying to establish Jbuilder.
Problem, the deployment is the biggest pain in the rear I have ever
seen!  For a simple hello world app with a pb and text box the Applet
download is HUGE!  Is there and EASY way to make decent size Applets?  I
want to deploy a simple DB app via web browser using a JDBC driver.
Works great but talk about bloated for something so simple.

I've tried and tried and am ready to scap but before I do is there and
EASY way to get these applets down to size or is Jbuilder2 pretty much
useless for Applets.  I can overide everything and do things by hand but
that defeats the purpose of using Jbuilder.  Also if I derive from
Applet instead of JApplet but still want to use the XYlayout I am forced
to use JBCL which then relies on swing.

I can't believe how long it took me to get a simple applet to work
compared with the trial version of VJ++ and a copy of Visual Cage Pro.
Jbuilder seems to be much more powerful and Java compliant but it sure
looks like overkill for writing Applets that will be accessed across a
WAN.

Please send email response to mikec@sficorp.com

I am kind of desparate, I bragged this product up from what I read in
the trade rags and really pushed for it.  If I can I'd like to save face
somehow.

Mike