[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: VB 6.0 to RCP to Web Application

[Mark <m@xxxxx>]

From what I can find, I don't think this will work since it will 
require native libraries that don't exist on the client (existing dlls 
can be used).

Do some googling with the terms - Applet native dll



Martin Thompson wrote:
> I have looked a bit at Web Start and JNLP and I can see that this is a 
> viable solution for getting my "Rich Client" application onto the web. 
> However, I remain convinced that eventually I might be required to duplicate 
> functionality of this application (to be written using Eclipse IDE and 
> SWT/JFace) using applets and web browsers. Has anyone been down a similar 
> development path? If not,
> can anyone provided feedback regarding possible problems, bottlenecks, 
> show-stoppers that I might encounter?
>
> Martin
>
> "Mark" <m@xxxxx> wrote in message news:f41s90$mes$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > Martin Thompson wrote:
> >
> > > Hello...
> > >
> > > I've been tasked with porting an application from Visual Basic 6.0 to 
> > > Java.
> > > I'd like to try using Eclipse and the Rich Client Platform to create a 
> > > stand-alone application.
> > >
> > > My question is:
> > >
> > > If I create a RCP stand-alone application and decide sometime in the 
> > > not-too-distant future to make a web-based application out of it (i.e. 
> > > java applets), how difficult will it be to create applets from the 
> > > RCP-based java code?
> > >
> > > I need to be able to convince management that this is a viable migration 
> > > path but I have, as yet, been unsuccessful in my attempts to determine 
> > > whether this is doable and how difficult the RCP to web-based application 
> > > migration might be.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >    Martin
> >
> > I'd suggest doing Web Start instead of an Applet.  Then the answer would 
> > be that it would be pretty easy.