From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 10:20:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1F716A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:20:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9383143D48 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:20:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 30718 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2004 18:20:18 -0000 Received: from 217-162-135-163.dclient.hispeed.ch (HELO buz.ch) (217.162.135.163) by 0 with SMTP; 23 Mar 2004 18:20:18 -0000 Message-ID: <406080BC.3090501@buz.ch> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:23:56 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (Windows/20040312) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lukman Jaji References: <20040323164204.392DA2ABCA@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> In-Reply-To: <20040323164204.392DA2ABCA@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deploying java programs (applications) X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:20:20 -0000 Lukman Jaji wrote: >hi, > > there is this problem i'm having.......it may not be a problem to u, my club members > is it possible to deploy java programs and turn them into an icon where all you have to do is double click the icon and the icon and the program executes. is it also possible to turn it into an icon of your own, not the java tea cup. is it possible to bind an sql database with a java front end and deploy it e.g installing an application you have designed on the system you of the owner, must sql be installed.......are these stupid questions? > > Well, to me they seem not all to relevant to Java. Creating icons for the desktop environment in question is pretty much the same for Java (or a sh/bat file wrapping it) as for any other program. As for bundling a DB with the frontend, that obviously depends mostly on the DB you want to use. HSQL (which is fully in Java) might be bundleable, the real RDBMS (think Postgre or god forbid Oracle) aren't (especially the latter is a real PITA to set up even for experienced admins).