Re: Porting web-based application to offline

From: hiwa (HGA03630_at_nifty.ne.jp)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: 10 Feb 2004 15:44:22 -0800

angusjunk@hotmail.com (at google) wrote in message news:<d9435e17.0402100439.3ea682e9@posting.google.com>...
> Our company has a web-based application and the boss wants to make it
> runnable in a notebook without any network connection. I'm have some
> idea that using Tomcat or even Jetty as the servlet container. However
> I don't think it is practical performance-wise (the notebook may has
> 128MB - 256MB ram) and even It will be a nightmare to support when you
> deploy a server application to the customer machine.
>
> I want to know any company has the same problem and how they solve it?
> Or is writing a VB app and keeping 2 branches of my application is a
> better approach?

Youe idea would be utterly impractical. Think of it!
Find a barebone, fast and small-foot-print servlet/JSP engine
and put http://localhost:8080/yourwebapp/ in your boss's
bookmark. I personally recommend Resin 2.1.x from www.caucho.com.
It's not free for corporate use, though.

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