- From: Gerald W. Edgar <gerald@blegga.freerange.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:19:37 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Matthew James Marnell <marnellm@portia.portia.com>
- Cc: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>, Russell Holt <holtrf@destinyusa.com>, www-html@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Matthew James Marnell wrote: > > Sorry, I missed this in the first reading. Again, since nobody > has asked this question, I will. Why are we talking about running > Java applets on servers? Because there may be licensing issues of allowing general internet access to a Web Server. If say I have a database. In my example let's take Oracle. It costs a set amount for an Oracle licence. Each connection will cost X amount. If I want to control costs, and remain legal, I want to have the applet execute on the server. That way I can make sure that no more than say 8 connections are made to the database. With the connections coming from java applets on client machines I may not have the control over the number of clients. Besides, Java is great in that it can be used cross platform. But that holds for servers too, not just the clients (browsers). <Stuff Deleted> Gerald Edgar Development Lead, Free Range Media Commercial Internet Development
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