Apparantly, Gael Duval has leaked the first bits of information concerning his Ulteo project to the LXF magazine. "You can't fail to notice that in the screenshot he sent us, Ulteo is running inside a web browser. What's more, the screenshot also shows Duval creating a presentation on the 'Ulteo Connected Desktop'. Ulteo is going to be hosted on Duval's own servers, enabling users to connect to their own desktop from anywhere in the world. [...] The system administration and upgrades will be handled at the server end, as too will application installation. [...] Anyone with a browser will be able to use Ulteo - indeed, Ulteo is going to need a broadband connection to work - as the client will only require Java."
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Actually, Java on the browser/client part is only there to connect, view and control the "remote Desktop": should be pretty thin.
To be honest, i don't see anything particularly new - there is already a lot of software today of this kind, just not a browser-based java app.
Member since:2006-09-10
http://www.workspot.net/
Lightweight encrypted VNC client in Java connecting to remote hosted linux, for a few dollars a month.
Nothing to do with me, I used it for a while a couple of years back. Just posted it to show this is nothing new.
Member since:2005-04-01
Java is so bad for me in Firefox/Win that I have it completely disabled in the browser. I'd rather use IE for Java. On the Mac, conversely, Java works well for me.
Edit: What I forgot to add was that Ulteo ought to use FreeNX as a base and use ICA for traffic. ICA is generally much smaller and more efficient than a bulky Java app, and there are already implementations of the official Citrix client and FreeNX on several platforms.
Citrix says you need something like 11K to have working session (which means dial up COULD work), and with broadband (really only about 50K), you're speeding.
Edited 2006-09-26 13:18
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2006-03-16
My experience with running Java apps inside a web browser
has been terrible. It's so bad that I want no part of
Java when it comes to using a browser.
For example, I can get Firefox to play nice with these
Java-based games Yahoo Games. Firefox (with Sun's JRE)
crashes like crazy adn IE is only slightly better. If it
has trouble with things like simple games, how am I
suppose to have confidence for serious apps?
I would rather they write a standalone cross-platform
client in Java instead.