Re: [Openjnlp-devel] Questions about OpenJNLP

[Christopher H. <he...@ez...>]

On Wednesday 20 February 2002 10:11, scott pennell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 1. Does OpenJNLP support the "execution" of JNLP files from a GUI-less
> machine (no Xserver for instance)?
> 2. Is there a way to stop a running application vis OpenJNLP once it has
> been started?
> 3. How far along is the development process?
>
> Thanks!
>
> I have a middle-ware JINI application (set of services) I need to have
> installed. JWS has some drawbacks in that it requires a GUI environment and
> also has no way of stopping an application started with it (except using
> kill -9)! Other than that, it is perfect for my needs. I hope this open
> source project provides a good alternative. Thanks.
>

1) As far as I can tell, it should - if you pass it a jnlp file as an 
argument, it opens that file without opening the GUI.

2) Not that I know of, but it's a cool idea.  After 35 seconds thought, I 
can't think of a reason why it wouldn't be fairly easy for most apps (if the 
app starts spawning other JVMs and/or processes, that could be a problem); 
that doesn't mean it actually is easy.

3) Wellllll  Kevin Herr is the most consistent developer.  I've been working 
on it in fits and starts over the past few weeks, and have started folding 
our local work back into the main code base.  Kevin has been thinking more
strategically than I have (I concentrate mainly on "what do we need right now 
here at my company"), and is probably the better person to answer where 
OpenJNLP is going.

					Chris