如何将我的 Java 桌面和 mysql 数据库应用程序放入我的网站

Question

Friends, I wrote a java desktop application that stores and retrieves data from Mysql database. I want to put the application into my website so that my Sales-Girls can log into it and save the day's sales summary directly to the database, but I don't know how to do that. Please can anyone help me out? I want to be able to monitor my three stores whenever I am out of town. I will greatly appreciate answer that can help me do this. Note; I don't know much about applet yet, still trying to learn more. Thanks..

Answer 1

There are several options that vary in how much rework they require, the experience required of your users and whether they require the purchase of a code-signing certificate.

Applets are a pain. I strongly recommend you do not bother.They are going to require some rework effort. They require a certificate for code-signing and are no longer supported by chrome with firefox support soon to go away.

Java WebStart avoids browser support issues and would require less rework than an applet but still requires the code-signing.

The easiest solution is just zip up your desktop application, users download it, install java and run the desktop program. Hopefully your "sales girls" are capable of doing that. No code-signing certificate may be required. You could bundle the JRE and your application in a launcher if necessary.

There are many different ways to build a Javascript/HTML client communicating with logic written in Java running on the server but they are all likely to involve a significant rewrite of your code. Vaadin is probably the best option for someone familiar with swing that doesn't want to learn more HTML/Javascript than necessary.