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Criteria to choose between JSP and Applet

5 replies on 1 page. Most recent reply: Apr 28, 2003 2:20 PM by Charles Bell

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Manish

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Criteria to choose between JSP and Applet Posted: Apr 24, 2003 11:42 PM
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Hi All,

I have seen many applications which are developed using JSP as the FE. JSP development is a tedious job if the screens are very difficult. In applet multiple tables and panel can be handled very easily.
Can any body let me know what are the guidelines for selecting between applets/swings and JSP.

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Manish


Senthoorkumaran Punniamoorthy

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Re: Criteria to choose between JSP and Applet Posted: Apr 25, 2003 5:02 PM
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JSP is server based technology where all the processiong of business logic will be handled at the server and the response will be sent to the browser. However applet on the other hand is capable of doing the processing on the client side since the clsas files are downloaded to the client machine.

Charles Bell

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Re: Criteria to choose between JSP and Applet Posted: Apr 25, 2003 5:44 PM
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On the practical side, in order to have a website which runs jsp java server pages, it has to be java servlet enabled. Most web hosting services do not provide that and they are not generally free. jsp pages put out html, wml, or xhtml or even xml pages, just to name a few options. All a client has to have is a web browser or web enabled device.

Most browsers do not come with a current java virtual machine. To run a swing applet, the user has to have a current jre installed. Although any web site can run swing applets.

Regular non swing applets can run on any web site, but there may be problems again with the jre.

Senthoorkumaran Punniamoorthy

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Re: Criteria to choose between JSP and Applet Posted: Apr 26, 2003 7:13 PM
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a free JSP hosting site would be for beginners

www.mycgiserver.com

Manish

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Re: Criteria to choose between JSP and Applet Posted: Apr 27, 2003 9:57 PM
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The advantages of JSP which you have drawn can be seen as
1. All browsers supports it.
2. It is for thin client.
I suppose this is fine if the application is small. But if the application is big and complicated, where a user has to work the whole day long then probably the applet based application would be better.
Now a days all the browsers are having in built JRE. Does this means the applets will be in more demand then JSP. JSP gives the thin client but it also makes the development much difficult and also JSP clients make traffic to the server more heavier. Please suggest.

Charles Bell

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Re: Criteria to choose between JSP and Applet Posted: Apr 28, 2003 2:20 PM
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The other big advantage of jsp is the ability to use tag libraries which can streamline lots of code writing.

They are just so easy to use.

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