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... nervous about using the web technology in the desktop version, but on the other hand there are lots of neat things you can do with the web version that would be nice to bring into desktop version, and i really don't want to be maintaining two separate systems. Having a single shared data and rendering system just seems more sensible ...-mouser (November 10, 2010, 01:24 PM)
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I would maintain a single source-code base regardless of what you do.
There are two very different options:
1) There are some tools that will turn a desktop application into a web application. They work okay, but you have to install a special run-time library.
2) Since most people already have the Java virtual machine installed, it may make more sense to just use Java coding for everything. The Web side can do everything in Java applets or beans. And Java has a nice database facility to work from. My only concern is:
2a) Java applications execute very slowly.
2b) I'm not sure where Java is going now that Oracle owns it.
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