Web Start question
I've been looking into WebStart a little more after my last post, as it could quite possibly solve a lot of our problems.
I wanted to make sure I'm reading things correctly though: As the client currently stands, it needs to get information from the web page (via applet params) when it starts up (things like who the user is, and what server it should be connecting to). Looking at the JNLP spec, it looks like I can set parameters in the JNLP file, but that means I have to dynamically create said file for each user (which I can just set up a web service to do, if need be).
I notice there is a Servlet that Sun provides that looks like it might also do the work of generating bits of the JNLP file, but all of our clients are running Microsoft boxes with IIS, and installing Tomcat (or whatever) isn't going to be an attractive option to them.
So would the web-service route be the way to go, or am I missing some other simpler way to get information from the launching page to the application?
I wanted to make sure I'm reading things correctly though: As the client currently stands, it needs to get information from the web page (via applet params) when it starts up (things like who the user is, and what server it should be connecting to). Looking at the JNLP spec, it looks like I can set parameters in the JNLP file, but that means I have to dynamically create said file for each user (which I can just set up a web service to do, if need be).
I notice there is a Servlet that Sun provides that looks like it might also do the work of generating bits of the JNLP file, but all of our clients are running Microsoft boxes with IIS, and installing Tomcat (or whatever) isn't going to be an attractive option to them.
So would the web-service route be the way to go, or am I missing some other simpler way to get information from the launching page to the application?
