Our app heavily makes use of applets to check-in (upload) and check out (download) files from users machine. Can someone please confirm what are the alternatives for applet (as it is going to be deprecated by Oracle in 2018)?
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What part of the task cannot be completed using JS? – Andrew Thompson Mar 13 '17 at 22:38
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1JS cannot access user's machines hard disc which signed applet can. Can someone pls suggest alternative for applet. Through jnlp can we access user's hard disc. – sam2539431 Apr 22 '17 at 18:13
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We had the same problem. We were using applets in our web application for printing, scanning etc. on local machines. We solved the problem with a simple Java Web Start client application that has a simple web server embedded (Jetty). Now when user starts the web application the client application is downloaded, if necessary, and started on the local machine. It sits there in a tray and listens for requests from the server side application. Handlers are implemented for different types of requests. When client side receives a request, it hands it over to a responsible handler, which executes its task and creates a response, that is sent back to the server side. For now, this solution works perfect and we could reuse most of the applet code.
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