java web start

A collection of 2 posts

The state of JVM desktop frameworks: introduction

This is the 1st post in the The state of JVM desktop frameworks focus series. I’m interested in GUI applications since I’ve starting coding. Building a back-end app that manages teraflops of operations is an impressive engineering feat. But the feedback cycle when developing a desktop app is much shorter. That makes it, at least for me, much more motivating. This is even truer for side-projects.

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Web Start your legacy applications

In this article, we’ll see how to make an old-but-useful legacy Java application into a brand new Java Web Start (JWS for short) application. JWS is an often overlooked technology that works miracles. With it, you can deploy any Java application, as easily as you would a web one: with the only update server-side and still your application running client-side, with access to all its resources.