[Jython-users] Questions about Jython and browser applets

[Gary H. <res...@ve...>]

I'm very familiar with CPython, but I know almost nothing about
Jython, and even less about writing browser applets, so this brings me
to several questions.

My application, which is mostly viewable on a browser as static web
pages and flash movies with a little javascript thrown in, now has a
need to execute a small amount of code on the users machine.  I'd like
to write that code in Jython and have the user's browser download and
execute it as an applet.

The hitch is that the applet must access things which, I think, are
not allowed for applets, such as
  creation of files somewhere on the hard disk
  calls to os.system -- does Jython even HAVE os.system or equiv?

Is it true that suc access is not normally available from an applet?

Is there a way to create applets that have this kind of access to the
user's system?

Can the user decide, if he trusts me sufficiently, to grant an applet
such access?

Thanks for any help,

Gary Herron
Island Training Solutions