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From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2005-02-24 06:17:52
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Hello, Ed Burnette writes in the Eclipse Powered blog story titled "Deploying RCP apps with Java WebStart": With help from Gordon Hirsch I've whipped up a live demo of an RCP application using Eclipse 3.1M5 and JWS. To see how it was done you can also find a zipped version of this on the downloads page. There are two parts. RcpMailWebStart is a small (60K) package that contains the RCP Mail template application. It refers to RcpSharedWebStart (6MB) that contains the shared RCP plug-ins. It is branded with a splash screen and window icons. Creating the jars was tricky; you have to do it all by hand: create manifest.mf files (plugin.xml won't cut it), make the jars, and sign them all. The osgi plug-in cannot contain any nested jars but the others can (but probably shouldn't for best performance). It should be possible to include jars for multiple architectures but I haven't done that yet (just Windows right now). This is supposed to get easier with 3.1M6. It's not perfect so I'm hoping some JWS experts out there can take a look at it and see how it can be improved. Comments welcome. More @ http://www.eclipsepowered.org/archives/2005/02/23/deploying-with-jws - Gerald |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2005-01-04 18:30:23
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Hello, Just to let you know that if anyone is interested in my Java Web Start consulting services or Venus Application Publisher installation offerings or any of the Lopica Web Start tools you can now engage me through my new employer SchemaSoft. You can find out more about SchemaSoft online @ http://schemasoft.com - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Forum | http://webstartforum.com Web Start News Wire | http://webstartnews.com Web Start F.A.Q. | http://webstartfaq.com |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-10-27 03:04:32
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Hello, Joshua Marinacci has posted a blog story on Sun's Java.net site titled "Web Start Rant". Joshua writes: Send me your ideas of what you'd like to see out of Web Start. What are the missing features. What are the most important bugs? I want to figure out what we can do through addons and what requires changes from Sun. This is what I'd like to see: * Better icon support. Make the width/height attributes do something, like select the right icon for the right job. If the desktop uses 48x48 icons, use the <icon width="48" height="48"> first. Let the jnlp file include platform specific icons too. Also, support PNG w/ transparency. Java apps still look inferior to native ones with such awful icon and splash screen support. * Create a SocketService to ask the user for permission to contact a site, and let the program spell out a reason why. Remember that permission in the future. (Think of the OS X keychain). * More demonstration applications. There should be a top quality example app that looks great, runs fast, and exercises all of the Web Start features. The source should be available and well documented. Pay someone to do this if you have to. * A sample self-contained JSP that implements the Web Start/jre autodetection and autodownload. The current document is spotty and scattered. This should be super easy to drop into your existing website. and much more Source: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2004/10/webstart_rant_1.html - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Forum | http://webstartforum.com Web Start News Wire | http://webstartnews.com Web Start F.A.Q. | http://webstartfaq.com |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-10-24 21:18:49
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Hello, to find the most popular open source Web Start tool/addon I've kicked of a poll at the Web Start Developers Yahoo! Group asking "What open source Web Start tools/addons have you used?". Choices include: o NetX o OpenJNLP o Xito BootStrap o JDistro/Wharf o Apollo o Rachel o Lopica Web Start Services Pack o Lopica Web Start Tools o Vamp Ant Task Suite o Maven JNLP Plugin o WebRCP o QuickJNLP o jnlp2msi.exe, jnlp2rpm, jnlp2pkg o ROXES Ant Tasks o Other (Please post your comment to the list) Cast your vote today online @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart/surveys?id=1465627 (registration required, sorry). - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Forum | http://webstartforum.com Web Start News Wire | http://webstartnews.com Web Start F.A.Q. | http://webstartfaq.com |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-10-23 19:15:43
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Hello, Keith Lea writes in a blog story titled "Looking for a Java Web Start JNLP 1.5 DTD?": Sun has created a DTD for the JNLP file format, but it's only posted inside a PDF file on the associated JSR-56 page (on pages 62 to 75). Also, it contains a syntax error. So, I've extracted and fixed it using pdftohtml, and I've posted it on my website. I have made the JNLP DTD available at http://kano.net/dtd/jnlp-1.5.dtd. To use it in your JNLP files, the beginning of your JNLP file should look like... More @ http://joust.kano.net/weblog/archive/2004/10/21/looking-for-a-java-web-start-jnlp-15-dtd - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Forum | http://webstartforum.com Web Start News Wire | http://webstartnews.com Web Start F.A.Q. | http://webstartfaq.com |
From: Raphael M. <ra...@hi...> - 2004-10-03 16:56:25
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Hello, Just released a new beta of the Java IRC Client jIRCii http://jirc.hick.org/ I've added a feature I call the jIRCii Launch Service. The purpose behind the jIRCii launch service is to make it easy to link to an irc channel from a website with minimal muss and fuss. http://jirc.hick.org/cgi-bin/launch.jnlp?irc://irc.freenode.net/jircii The above URL will launch jIRCii to connect to irc.freenode.net and join #jircii. Someone wanting to put a front end javascript form onto such a url could even let the user specify a nickname: http://jirc.hick.org/cgi-bin/launch.jnlp?irc://ni...@ir.../channel Regardless once that link is activated jIRCii will launch and with 0 configuration from the user, it will connect to the specified irc server and join the specified channel. Sure beats adding an ugly applet to a website. Go webstart! -- Raffi On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Raphael Mudge wrote: > Hi there, > I put out a 'stable' release of my Java IRC Client jIRCii today. Feel > free to check it out. Source code and other fun stuff can be found on the > homepage at http://jirc.hick.org/ > > -- Raffi > > jIRCii is a powerful cross platform Internet Relay Chat client. It is > fully scriptable using a Perl-like language called sleep. The focus is to > provide a console client experience with the advantages of a solid GUI. It > includes DCC/CTCP support, the ability to connect to SSL servers, and over > 65 built-in commands. > > WWW: http://jirc.hick.org/ > JNLP: http://jirc.hick.org/jircii/jIRCii.jnlp > |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-09-28 02:07:24
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Hello, The Sun java.net site sports a new project titled "Java 3D Web Start Binaries". The project summary states: This project contains Java Web Start-accessible releases of the Java 3D and vecmath APIs. Applications can access Java 3D from this site using the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP), without requiring user's of the application to download and install Java 3D. See below for more information on writing your programs to access Java 3D via JNLP. Please visit the Java Web Start Technology page for information about using Java Web Start in your applications. More @ https://j3d-webstart.dev.java.net - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Forum | http://webstartforum.com Web Start News Wire | http://webstartnews.com Web Start F.A.Q. | http://webstartfaq.com |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-09-28 02:06:31
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Hello, Lee Software has release QuickJNLP 0.5. The QuickJNLP page states: QuickJNLP is a utility allows regular Java applications to be deployed with Web Start. It packs all the necessary files for the application into a Jar file and generates a corresponding JNLP file. The original java application does not need to modified in any way for use with Web Start. The purpose of QuickJNLP is to make regular Java applications work with Web Start without the need for any changes to the application code. This means that applications that were not written with Web Start in mind can deployed using Web Start technology. QuickJNLP creates an executable Jar archive which includes all the files from the application directory specified by the user, along with a JNLP file. Once the Jar archive is signed by the user, it may be deployed on the website, with the JNLP file. When the Jar archive is executed it will automatically unpack the files and invoke the correct command to start the application. QuickJNLP can also be used to prepare native applications for deployment using Web Start. Java applications that require a console for input and output will still have access to one when deployed via Web Start. The program features an easy to use graphic user interface as well as a command line option. More @ http://www.leesw.com/quickjnlp - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Forum | http://webstartforum.com Web Start News Wire | http://webstartnews.com Web Start F.A.Q. | http://webstartfaq.com |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-09-23 03:50:28
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Hello, Ed Burnette reports on the eclipsepowered mailinglist that Daniel Mendler and Stephan Wilczek have created a project on Sourceforge called WebRCP that provides source code (under EPL) and an example for how to install and run Eclipce Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications using Web Start. See also bug 48416. http://sourceforge.net/projects/webrcp http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=48416 - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Forum | http://webstartforum.com Web Start News Wire | http://webstartnews.com Web Start F.A.Q. | http://webstartfaq.com |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-08-27 01:17:46
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Hello, Grzegorz Kowal reports that launch4j is now out. Grzegorz writes: Launch4j is a windows native executable (.exe) java application wrapper. It offers native splash screen, application icon, search for jvm or use bundled one, feedback on startup failure, passes command line and jvm arguments, ant script for building executables directly from java source. License: GNU Library or Lesser Public License (LGPL) Features: * Launch4j wraps your jar in a native windows executable (.exe), the user runs your app just like any other windows application. * custom application icon. * native splash screen in BMP format shown until your app starts. * works with a bundled JRE or searches for JRE / SDK * highest possible JRE version is used, min/max may be specified * passes command line arguments. * small overhead, about 45 KB. * it's free, you may use it for commercial purposes. * sample application and ant scipt Changes in version 1.1 * passes jvm arguments: tweak the heap size, garbage collection, whatever... More @ http://launch4j.sourceforge.net - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer XUL News Wire | http://xulnews.com RichCon 2005 | http://richcon.com Web Start News | http://webstartnews.com Web Start F.A.Q | http://webstartfaq.com Web Start Forum | http://webstartforum.com |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-08-23 14:50:15
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Hello, The Jakarta Commons team has announced the release of the Commons Launcher v1.1. What is the Jakarta Commons Launcher? The Launcher Component is designed to be a cross platform Java application launcher. The original Java classes come from the Jakarta Tomcat 4.0 project. Commons-launcher eliminates the need for a batch or shell script to launch a Java class. Some situations where elimination of a batch or shell script may be desirable are: * You want to avoid having to determining where certain application paths are e.g. your application's home directory, etc. Determining this dynamically in a Windows batch scripts is very tricky on some versions of Windows or when softlinks are used on Unix platforms. * You want to avoid having to handle native file and path separators or native path quoting issues. * You need to enforce certain system properties e.g. java.endorsed.dirs when running with JDK 1.4. * You want to allow users to pass in custom JVM arguments or system properties without having to parse and reorder arguments in your script. This can be tricky and/or messy in batch and shell scripts. * You want to bootstrap system properties from a configuration file instead hard-coding them in your batch and shell scripts. * You want to provide localized error messages which is very tricky to do in batch and shell scripts. More @ http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/launcher - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Forum | http://webstartforum.com Web Start News Wire | http://webstartnews.com Web Start F.A.Q. | http://webstartfaq.com |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-08-20 18:11:47
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Hello, I invite you to send your news stories straight to the Web Start News Wire (webstartnews.com) also known as the lopica-announce mailing list. You can subscribe/unsubscribe at anytime @ http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lopica-announce You are also more than welcome to announce your Web Start app to the galaxy by sending a blurb (that is, a brief description) with the address to your app's web page to the lopica-announce mailing list. If you want to stay anonymous or if you want stay away from the mailing list for whatever reason you can send your Web Start news tips to my private mail, that is, ge...@va.... - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart Web Start News Wire | http://webstartnews.com Web Start Premium Support | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart-support |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-08-20 17:51:17
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Hello, You can now access the Web Start News Wire - the world's #1 Web Start news source - using the webstartnews.com web address. The latest Web Start News Wire headlines include: * Web Start os and arch Value Collection Updated * Web Start Premium Support Offering Upcoming - Any Comments? * jIRCii Stable - Webstartable IRC Client * jnlp2msi.exe, jnlp2rpm, jnlp2pkg - Sun Open-Sources New Web Start Pack * Java Web Start/JNLP Mailinglist Now Live @ Yahoo! Groups * developerWorks Article: Deploying Java Apps using Web Start and WebSphere Studio More @ http://webstartnews.com - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart Web Start News Wire | http://webstartnews.com Web Start Premium Support | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart-support |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-08-16 21:43:11
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Hello, I finally got around to update the Lopica os and arch value collection. New entries include: * HP-UX / B.11.23 / IA64N * HP-UX / B.11.11 / PA_RISC2.0 (JDK 1.3.x or JDK 1.4.x on PA-RISC 2.0) * HP-UX / B.11.11 / PA_RISC (JDK 1.2.x on PA-RISC 2.0) * HP-UX / B.11.11 / PA-RISC (JDK 1.1.x on PA-RISC 2.0) * Mac OS X / 10.3.4, 10.3.3, 10.3.2, 10.3.1 / ppc * Mac OS X / 10.2.6 / ppc * SunOS / 5.9 / sparc * Linux / ppc64 (IBM Java 1.3) Thanks to Matthew H. Ray, Hanaa Barakat, Ian Springer and David Scott Page for their contributions. More @ http://lopica.sourceforge.net/os.html - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart Web Start Premium Support | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart-support |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-08-15 02:41:34
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Hello, Over the next couple of weeks I plan to work out all the details for a Web Start premium support offering. The idea is to offer support contracts for Web Start. Once you've signed up for a support contract you will get a guaranteed response to your questions from world-class Web Start experts within 24 hours. The offering will also include access to an updated version of the Unofficial Java Web Start F.A.Q. I've setup a new mailinglist over at Yahoo! that is only accessible to people holding a valid support contract. (See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart-support ). Let me know what you think about the Web Start premium support offering and if you would be interested in signing up. Please send your comments to my private mail or post them to the Web Start Developers Group @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart Web Start Premium Support | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart-support |
From: Raphael M. <ra...@hi...> - 2004-08-08 01:25:15
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Hi there, I put out a 'stable' release of my Java IRC Client jIRCii today. Feel free to check it out. Source code and other fun stuff can be found on the homepage at http://jirc.hick.org/ -- Raffi jIRCii is a powerful cross platform Internet Relay Chat client. It is fully scriptable using a Perl-like language called sleep. The focus is to provide a console client experience with the advantages of a solid GUI. It includes DCC/CTCP support, the ability to connect to SSL servers, and over 65 built-in commands. WWW: http://jirc.hick.org/ JNLP: http://jirc.hick.org/jircii/jIRCii.jnlp |
From: Raphael M. <ra...@hi...> - 2004-06-04 21:28:12
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Welp I'm back in the saddle with doing some jIRCii maintenance work. I've released another beta for consumption by the world. For those not in the know jIRCii is a powerful client for the internet relay chat protocol. It is fully scriptable, feels natural wether your on OS X, Linux, or Windows. It is a client that is meant to fit in to its desktop environment. Of course jIRCii is webstartable :) http://jirc.hick.org/jircii/jIRCii.jnlp Highlights from this beta include: * added numerous keyboard shortcuts * added auto connect on startup feature * numerous bug fixes and cosmetic changes * minor scripting enhancements * updated servers.ini file To get the latest version visit: http://jirc.hick.org/ -- Raffi |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-06-02 17:20:43
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Hello, Sun has open sourced some new Web Start tools that let you build Microsoft MSI, Linux RPM or Debian PKG packages using Web Start XML scripts (e.g. JNLP descriptors) under the JDesktop Integration Components (JDIC) umbrella. More @ https://jdic.dev.java.net/documentation/packager/example.html and https://jdic.dev.java.net If anyone tries out the new Web Start packaging tool let us know how it goes and what you think. Please post your comments to the Web Start Developers Group. - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-05-31 14:58:35
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Hello, I've setup a new mailinglist over at Yahoo! Groups for Java Web Start developers. The charter reads as follows: The Java Web Start Developers Group is a forum to ask questions or share tips and tricks about Java Web Start and the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP). You're also more than welcome to announce your Java Web Start tool, script, addon, article, book, etc. to the list. I invite you to sign up and help the discussion get going. The postings so far include: * Unofficial Java Web Start FAQ Update * Lopica Web Start XML Startup Script Browser Born * Web Start News Wire @ The Mail Archive * Web Start Services Pack Beta 4 Now Live More @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webstart - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-05-27 19:01:28
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Hello, C.N.Medappa writes: Making JRex deployable using Java Web Start is complete and CVS is updated with the changes. Changes: - JRex now has built in support for webstart deployement. - To make a webstart deployment use 'ant makews' command. - Check JRexExample.java, resource/JRex.jnlp for the changes you have to do to get your application WebStarted. Check http://jrex.mozdev.org for WebStart demo. It is quite slow ;) Source: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mozilla.jrex/310 - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start News Wire | http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.jnlp.announce |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-05-27 18:29:59
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Hello, Allow me to highlight Gary Kephart DIY Web Start project. Gary writes: This is a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) web site for a complete Java Web Start application. You should be able to take the resources and instructions provided herein and create and run your own complete J2EE Java Web Start application. This application uses the following technologies (so you get a taste for them all): * Apache Ant * JFC/Swing * Web Start * JBoss * JAAS * Custom LoginModule * JDBC * MySQL * RMI over HTTP * Session Beans * BMP Entity Beans * Run as applet/application * J2EE Design Patterns o Data Objects o Session Facade o Service Locator o Business Objects o Delegate Objects o Value Objects And, just to show you that it really works, you can run the applet or run the desktop application here on this site. User "bsmith/password" will be authenticated and has authorization, and user "jdoe/password" will be authenticated but has no authorization. Finally, here are the instructions. More @ http://www.photeus.com:8080/diy_webstart - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start News Wire | http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.jnlp.announce |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-05-22 13:34:54
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Hello, Joe Winchester wrote in to tell us that a longer version of the WebSphere Journal article titled "Developing Java Client Applications Using Java Web Start and WebSphere Studio: Using JWS avoids the problems associated with traditional applets" that now seems locked up behind a subscription (when just two days ago it was accessible for free) is available for free at IBM's DeveloperWorks site. Full story @ http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0402_winchester/0402_winchester.html - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start News Wire | http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.jnlp.announce |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-05-22 00:35:19
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Hello, Pelle Braendgaard has written up a blog story titled "Web Start and Iterative GUI Development". Pelle writes: Using Maven JNLP I use Maven, which I know many people dislike. For me though its great. I was able to start creating Java Web Start apps with only a very slight knowledge of the api. Maven includes the very cool JNLP Plugin. You simply add a few properties to your project.properties. The following are from mine... More @ http://talk.org/archives/000287.html - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-05-21 16:44:24
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Hello, I just stumbled over a Web Start article published in the WebSphere Journal titled "Developing Java Client Applications Using Java Web Start and WebSphere Studio: Using JWS avoids the problems associated with traditional applets" by Joe Winchester (IBM), Gunturi Srimanth (IBM) and Dr. Gili Mendel (IBM). Full story @ http://sys-con.com/story/?storyid=43848 or http://sys-con.com/story/print.cfm?storyid=43848 - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start News Wire | http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.jnlp.announce |
From: Gerald B. <ge...@va...> - 2004-05-03 15:04:21
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Hello, Daniel Worden has written up an article for IBM's Autonomic computing chapter on the developerWorks site titled "Deploy software, autonomically". Daniel writes: In an ideal world, all your code is packaged into a universal install script, with dependency checking, updating, and logging services handled automatically. Conflicts between resources required by different applications are resolved according to predefined policies. Site-specific configuration changes are automatically applied as part of the unattended installation, and tests are run across the environment to confirm that everything is good to go. Autonomic computing technology brings this vision closer to an achievable reality. More @ http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/autonomic/library/ac-deploy - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start News Wire | http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.jnlp.announce |