I have this new requirement to develop a software which is a large scale image up loader in a web application. I was able to do the same using swing contains several feature like drag and drop, progress bar, remove file / files , modify, limit file size, verify file information, timer, verify at run time ..and its a very powerful tool which uploads images.
I would like to do the same in web based app, like user selects 200 images process it and click upload and it should start uploading, like to know any feasible frameworks or any API's which help me do this faster and achieve the same kind of functionality. Please point me in correct direction.
-PD
You can do upload apps, but not fancy stuff like drag and drop with run of the mill HTML. HTML5 on google chrome maybe, but I doubt you want code that only works on chrome.
Have you looked into turning your image uploader app into a java applet? Applets generally have a bad rep, but this is one of the very (in my opinion) valid uses of one...
Either turn your uploader into an applet or use a 3rd party image upload applet, such as JumpLoader. You then just embed this applet in your webpage. Turning your uploader into an applet should actually be a piece of cake since you've the UI apparently already ready. You can make use of deployJava.js script to reliably deploy an applet.
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I am making an application in java which would be showing a HTML web page, getting the address of the webpage from a config file. The web page will be on the local disk. Now what i want is, when i start the Java program, the program will be showing the the webpage fullscreen on the computer without the mouse cursor. Now for that i would be first needing a HTML Engine or a web browser which can run inside the java application(events liek press of button etc etc will be passed to the web page from the java application). I cant find a way to show these web pages. I would be needing to show current tech web pages , such that it can process everything from jQuery, Js, Ajax, CSS3, HTML 5. So that beautiful web pages are able to be shown through the Java program.
JxBrowser is a good api for such purpose. It uses the chromium engine which offers an optimum speed just like native browsers. I have used it and it worked for me
Maybe you can give a try to jxbrowser
It promise to be a very good component.
From the home page:
Embed a lightweight Chromium-based Swing component into your Java
application to display modern web pages built with HTML5, CSS3,
JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight etc.
This is possible if you're willing to use javaFx.
I'm not sure to which extent the latest html5 and css3 goodies are supported, but it's a decent browser enough : java fx WebView component
You can try using the SWT Browser control if your application runs on Windows.
It wraps the currently installed Internet Explorer and gives you a very powerful access to its functionality including event listeners, etc.
I'd need to do an app that runs on google app engine that would be able to automatically create some image files from GWT graphics on server that would be later automatically attached in an email that would be automatically sent once a week.
But as far as I've investigated I see no possible way to do it on server, first off, I haven't been able to use ImageCharts on google appengine I had to use ColumnCharts and LineCharts, so that would complicate the process to turn then into images, althoug I think it could be done although it could take a while, although maybe it would be impossible to do it.
Biggest problem I see is that Google App Engine has File I/O absolutely banned, so although there might be a workaround, I guess it's a difficult one, I know about blobstore, but from what I've seen it just allows you to upload already existing files from you own PC, not to create new ones.
Is there something that could be done?
I have added JavaHelp to my web application, but now I need to include videos in the content (html)files. As far as I can read here I need to implement a lightweight component, and I can use the video viewer included in the Java 2 platform, but I am lost as to how to that.
Can anyone here walk me through the steps necessary to implement this?
As far as I can tell I need to
include an applet using the tags.
write the applet, basing it on the Java 2 video viewer
pack the applet??
I hope one of you has experience with this.
Can I run Java applications (Java Web Start) on iPad?
Looks like this is not possible, but someone suggested using Cloud Browse (an application I couldn't' find) to run Java.
Any solutions?
UPDATE: Cloud Browser is an application that was available on the App Store but it was removed my Apple. Cloud Browse would process the web site externally and then stream the web site content to your iPad screen (something like video streaming).
No, you cannot run Java programs on the iPad (or any iOS device). Apple's license terms forbid running applications that can execute code downloaded from the Internet (which is what Java Web Start is all about).
No, as staffan said, Webstart will not work. However using CloudBrowse, an applet can work. It looks like the idea behind Cloud Browse is that the browser gets rendered on the server and video of the web page get streamed to your phone. This way, it appears to the user that applets or flash are running on the ipad.
I tried CloudBrowse on my IPAD as I've got a Java Applet that runs inside a brower and wanted it to work on my Ipad.
I found that it works pretty well. The Java Applet has a 3D animation, it's not as smooth as running on Windows/Mac through a normal web-browser, but it's pretty good.
I paid for full version, wasn't that expensive and to me, worth it. Opens up the power of using Applets but within Ipad!
Check it out here ... 3D sailing replay.
I have seen a lot of people try to make a web ui looks like a desktop ui. However, most of the time i feel web ui is much more interesting than the desktop ui, with the help of javascript toolkit like jquery, gwt-ext etc.
My question is, how to port the web ui to desktop ui? Do I need to embed a javascript engine in java? css engine? html layout engine? That sounds like a lot of work to do.
Any easy way of doing this?
you can embed a web server in your app and you can embed a browser inside your app window. i know eclipse does this pretty well. it uses SWT to do the heavy lifting
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/#browser
check the Browser section
your web server doesnt even have to be a proper web server, it just has to set the content, and can query / change it on the fly. the javascript on the page can even interact directly with your app.
you should be even able to use crazy web frameworks like
http://echo.nextapp.com/site/
or
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
or even run a ruby site through JRUBY
or make really complex apps using the new HTML5 engine [canvas/video tags] (if your client has the new mozilla installed)
Adobe AIR technology solves this exact problem. The code you develop using Flex can be rendered in the Flash player plugin of a browser or the same code can be easily packaged as a Desktop application that runs on the AIR runtime.
Have you seen Appcelerator's Titanium Desktop
This is one of the best solution for you (i think!)
You write the javascript and html code, and the titanium SDK creates the Desktop application of the same
There is support for Python and Ruby.
Must try :
http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop/
if you are a Ruby programmer then you must also see this
http://www.rubyinside.com/bowline-rails-for-the-desktop-2183.html
Prism from Mozilla is made for this goal, exactly. It's out of beta now too, I believe.
Check Google Gears y Adobe AIR
It not 'a lot of work to do', it's a huge amount of work to do - you would in effect be writing you own browser and it'd never come close to the poplar ones out there, simply because you wouldn't get the level of feedback something like Firefox gets.
If you're trying to avoid address bars, menu bars, etc these can be switched off in all the popular browsers and so to the user the appearance would be that it's more application like with only the rich content of the HTML visible.
Sounds like JavaFX would be good for you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javafx
Try XULRunner from Mozilla. If you have developed extensions for Firefox, then this is the exact same thing. XULRunner contains the Gecko engine, so it can render XUL and HTML with CSS, and it supports JavaScript with many useful XUL Components, like file read and write, directory browser and network tools.
Because it supports HTML you can in effect make a webpage and have it run like an application. Also it is cross platform, so it will run on Windows, Mac and Linux, anywhere Firefox runs actually.
There is some information on creating XULRunner applications on the net, but since it's so similar to making Firefox Extensions, you can just google for that. A good Tutorial for getting started is this one.