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Blogging from the GWT Conference: GWT as a Replacement for Java Swing Apps

Dietrich Kappe, Tuesday, December 4, 2007 @ 11:44 am

Just here a short while and I've already heard some interesting notions from some hardware vendors (SANS, Firewalls, etc.) about how GWT might be the key to solving their deployment problems. Right now, many of them use Java (write once, run anyware, etc.) to write the desktop administration applications that manage their hardware. But Java is not trivial to package up and deploy for different OS's. Many of these vendors seems to be considering GWT as an alternative, i.e. you get the RIA experience without having to deploy anything past a browser on the client.

More evidence that the browser is being viewed as an application platform, i.e. an operating system.

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Comments: 2 so far

  1. Very interesting. Makes sense in general but how could “desktop administration applications that manage their hardware” run in a browser since don’t they need to access the hardware in ways that a browser can’t?

    Comment by Ken, Monday, December 10, 2007 @ 10:09 am

  2. Ken, I think a good answer to your question is that the vendors of these devices would
    build a little HTTP daemon into the device. To administer your router, you would point
    your browser at port 8080 of the device’s interface. The dynamic ‘gui’ would run in your
    browser, but anything that needed to talk to the hardware itself would happen on the
    server side, over some service written using GWT’s RPC mechanism, etc.

    Comment by pohl, Wednesday, December 12, 2007 @ 5:33 pm

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