Re: problem with applet access to web service

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:21:35 -0700
Message-ID:
<xwEOh.45886$A53.4537@newsfe13.lga>
Lew wrote:

ballo0 wrote:

Can You [sic] say exactly what do you mean by signing applet? Applet runs
from web serwer, it is packaged in war [sic], of web application that
contains a website with this applet. Exactly i [sic] have a ejb [sic]
deployed,
and it has a webservice, and applet is trying to use it. If you want
here is exact code:


That seems unusual to me, though I'm not an applet expert as, say,
Andrew is. I have not run across any hybrid applet/JEE applications
before - what advantages does that approach hold?

I can think of myriad disadvantages.

Signing an applet means to provide a trust certificate to the user,
which they have to accept before the applet obtains elevated privileges.
Without that, the applet cannot do things like invoke resources outside
its home domain.

Is the EJB from outside the applet's home domain?

Would a more conventional approach, like having an HTML form submission
trigger servlet actions such as EJB invocation, suit your purposes? It'd
be a lot simpler to engineer.

-- Lew


I don't know the answer to this either. Simple signed applets I can do
but I don't know anything about EJB.

--

Knute Johnson
email s/nospam/knute/

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