Hi everyone, i'm new to Java - and although i'm an experienced programmer i'm really a doctor. I am developing along with my university a virtual patient simulation program which uses a rich internet application front end (Flash etc.) together with a Java backend for the programmatic heaving lifting. The physiological model is extremely complicated and limited by the power of the computer, so we are shifting a lot of the complex algorithms to a server, which does it's multiple floating point number crunching and sends the result back to the client. This means that we can provide hi fidelity simulation to the third world. However:
1) is it possible to run glassfish on a server so that a there are persistent objects across multiple POST requests (much like the PHP session variables). There would be many many variables.
2) it is possible to instruct the server to run a Java program which remains running, then communicate via a Socket connection? etc?
3) is there a simple package for playing with glassfish on a windows computer rather than a server? I'm thinking of PHP packages like WAMP and XAMP which install a LAMP stack and enable you to test pages on a local host address. Is there some sort of plugin for Netbeans which does this? I really don't want to start learning Linux etc.
thanks for your patience,
kenneth
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