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Re: Connecting to Glassfish from remote web container

From: Ian Evans <Ian.Evans_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:03:44 -0700

Takashi Nishigaya <Takashi.Nishigaya_at_Sun.COM> wrote:
> Thank you for your valuable sugestions.
> Yes, @EJB is really good feature in Java EE 5.
> Maybe it is time to use the client container.
>
> But for portability issue, different vendor provides the different command usage for client container. It raises another issue about
> packaging of the portable ejb client application, i.e.,
>
> which is protable? properties + classpath vs. wrapping command line

Glassfish/App Server 9 uses Java Web Start to simplify packaging and
running Java EE App Clients. It's the best solution for running remote
app clients.

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/quinn?entry=how_does_glassfish_know_about
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-3659/6n5s6m5aa?a=view

I don't think we've done enough to promote app client use generally or
to publicize our Java Web Start-able app client feature.

-ian
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