Re: JMF Applet without client side installation

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:07:22 GMT

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amitatgroups@gmail.com wrote:
...

i need/want to implement an Applet which will run on Client machine
using my web page(web browser). Applet is used to establish voice
chatting using VOIP but without client side Installation stuff.

You explained a lot in this post, but I am still not
clear on any answer to 'why not use web start'?

This will be *very* difficult to deploy as a standard
applet embedded in a web page.

Note that web start does offer the ability to get
an applet or application running on a client PC,
"..using my web page(web browser)" that is one
of its major strengths.

As to the 'without installation' part, forget it.
The code *must* be present for the app. to run,
there is no way around that. The real issue here
(as far as I understand) is to not force the user to
go through any 'special setup'* to use the app., and
that can be achieved fairly easily, using web start.

* Short of OK'ing some confirmation dialogs, which
is what an applet that captures audio would need to
do, anyway.

As an aside, one perennial problem with capturing
sound in an applet using JMF, is that even if the applet
is signed, the JMF code uses a configuration setting
within the JMF registry to decide whether to allow the
applet to record. That setting defaults to 'no' in the
JMF set-up installer, and most people accept that
setting.

Besides that, there a variety of security issues with
applets that might trip up this applet, people are very
cautious about allowing applets out of their 'sandbox',
with good cause ("the web page, that watches you
back!").

--
Andrew Thompson
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