luechtdiode commented 5 years ago

Abstract

As mentioned in #18, we found a candidate to move in the public open source domain: Actually, Appstarter and ClientMessaging is a tiny piece of infrastructure to integrate rich- and web-clients by adding the capability to launch other apps and to transfer context-information that initializes the started app to continue a app-overspanning usecase. Appstarter is also for most usecases able to replace the JNLP Runtime of the legacy JRE-distributions.

There are some baloise-specific parts, that should be generalized. Also, there are some parts, that could be replaced by other open source libraries.

Here a short braindump to be discussed

Dependencies

filsystem => make own opensource-lib
clientmessaging => make own opensource-lib, integrate in starter to host clientmessaging-server
resources => make own opensource-lib or eliminate and use standard i18n features
swingframework => eliminate, write new UI

Design

Goal: msi-installer with windows 10 64 compatible binaries

containing jre11, (ev. downsized with jigsaw)

Specification

plugable jre-folder
built with openjdk11 or later
built on travis with openjdk-tooling
pure-java (eliminate delphi-dependency with bvStarter.exe)
integrate clientmessaging-server
one binary to start applications (merge bvStarter.exe AppStarter.cmd and ClientMessagingServer).
compose those as independent libraries (filsystem, clientmessaging).
act as URL-Adapter with the "target:///"-schema, automatically registered by the msi-installer.

Configurable Items (ev. with installer-wizard)

appStarter.properties
Webstart baseUrl
Environment-Qualifiers (defaults Test, Int, Acc, Prod)
JRE's (ev. autoconfig from a common jre-folder)
Startlink-List (ClientMessaging) or a new concept for that feature

MarkusTiede commented 5 years ago

Thanks for this detailed proposal @luechtdiode!

luechtdiode commented 5 years ago

Also interesting move at the moment: https://github.com/karakun/OpenWebStart

MarkusTiede commented 3 years ago

Closing for now - please feel free to re-open.

baloise / open-source

Open Source: AppStarter and ClientMessaging #94