I think I read something about this and I may just be using the wrong terms
in search engines.
I thought I read about a process where I could write Java classes that would
be stored on a server (I think they had to be signed), and would be
accessible to Java classes running on other computers. Is this possible?
Can someone give me more info (or at least a list of terms, since I seem to
be getting info on applets, which I can't use because they can't open a
file and upload it)?
I am working on a program that retrieves data from a POP3 address, allows
the user to edit settings, then sends the changed settings out through
SMTP. I would also like for the user to be able to select a file on
his/her computer and send it along with the settings. I finally found out
that applets can't read in the file on a user's system. Since that won't
work with applets, I was thinking I could write a class that would start
the program (and maybe the GUI) while it was downloading remote classes.
This would make it easy for me to update the program at any time by just
updating the classes stored on the online server.
Is this possible? Is there a better way to do this?
Thanks for any info or help.
Hal