SOAP frustrations

[Graham Dumpleton]

martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. Loewis) wrote in message news:<m3bs5thlce.fsf at mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>...
> grahamd at dscpl.com.au (Graham Dumpleton) writes:
> 
> > Okay, you could use Java as you client, but at that point you may as
> > well use something like RMI.
> 
> Or you use Python.

The issue is that you don't want to have to make a user explicitly download
some package to get the client to work. This would therefore rule out the use
of CPython.

As for JPython, what is involved in having Python run inside a Java applet
to use it in that way? Is this a trivial exercise in that required stuff
will be downloaded automatically, or does it still rely on a user having to
download stuff explicitly? Or is it simply not possible because of the
structures of Java applets?

What is required is a solution which people can use without thinking. Except
for Microsofts latest attempts to sabotage Java on the desktop, one could at
least be partly comfortable with the notion that the browser has Java support
and thus why for maximum audience that would have been the way to go if you
aren't going to use a HTML based browser application.