Icon in a web app ?

[Shreya Menon]

Can we do this for a web app in websphere ?
our current client/server app has a flashing icon which flashes when a new message arrives.

This icon exists in the tool bar [windows systray] and its there

when we first login to the app. Now the same feature needs to be put in a web based app. when a user logs in to our web app, an icon should appear on the systray. How do i implement it ?
Thanks
[ May 18, 2005: Message edited by: Shreya Menon ]

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Shreya,
A web application cannot access the system tray. This would be a security violation.

[Shreya Menon]

Jeanne,

Thanks for the input, Can you please elaborate ? Any links would be appreciated because I have to communicate this to my top level managers.

Thanks,

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

I don't know of any links. The system tray is a part of the Windows operating system. If an arbitrary web page could access anything it wanted on your machine, it could delete all your files. This would be very bad. So the operating system has to protect itself and doesn't allow you to do things like that.

I've asked for this thread to be moved to HTML since it's not really about WebSphere. And people are more likely to have more information over there.

[Mark Spritzler]

Moving to the HTML forum.

Mark

[Shreya Menon]

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Any one has any comments to help here

An icon needs to be created in systray when I access my website.
Is this possible ?

Please help

Thanks

[Gregg Bolinger]

Originally posted by Shreya Menon:
bartenders, sheriffs,all ranch vistiors

Any one has any comments to help here

An icon needs to be created in systray when I access my website.
Is this possible ?

Please help

Thanks

As has been said, no, not really. There is a huge security risk involved here. Here are some suggestions...

1. Write a seperate program that can run when the computer starts or when it is told to run that is completely seperate from your web app and loads in the system tray. Java can now be used this way thanks to JDIC.

2. Write a seperate program but allow it to launch via Java WebStart somewhere on a page in your webapp. This would still require the user to OK the app to run, but might be more in line with what you are wanting.

[Shreya Menon]

Gregg,

Thank you for your reply:
Well, need some details please.

From your reply:
As has been said, no, not really. There is a huge security risk involved here.
I understand: Can you or anyone please provide any links or some more explainations about why ? I have to make my top level people understand. So some more explanination will be helpful.

Here are some suggestions...

1. Write a seperate program that can run when the computer starts or when it is told to run that is completely seperate from your web app and loads in the system tray. Java can now be used this way thanks to JDIC.

For this, something needs to be installed on every client machines ? Correct ?

2. Write a seperate program but allow it to launch via Java WebStart somewhere on a page in your webapp. This would still require the user to OK the app to run, but might be more in line with what you are wanting.

I need some more ideas here:
Login.jsp -> who calls Java web start program
who displays icon on systray ?

Please help
My email is [e-mail] in case you prefer an email

Thanks

[Mark Spritzler]

Originally posted by Shreya Menon:

Can you or anyone please provide any links or some more explainations about why ?

Simply put anyone would be able to put anything into the systray without the user knowing or allowing it, and also it would allow anyone to put a program on someone's machine and automatically run it. This is a security risk because bad people write bad programs that destroy computers.

1. Write a seperate program that can run when the computer starts or when it is told to run that is completely seperate from your web app and loads in the system tray. Java can now be used this way thanks to JDIC.

For this, something needs to be installed on every client machines ? Correct ?

Yes, it would have to be installed on every client machine.

2. Write a seperate program but allow it to launch via Java WebStart somewhere on a page in your webapp. This would still require the user to OK the app to run, but might be more in line with what you are wanting.

I need some more ideas here:
Login.jsp > who calls Java web start program
who displays icon on systray ?

Please help
My email is [e-mail] in case you prefer an email

Thanks

I think this is a way to do what you are looking for, but requires the user to accept and allow the program to be installed and run.

Mark

[Mark Spritzler]

I'm going to move this to Java In General (Intermediate)

Mark

[Shreya Menon]

Can anyone please provide some help here ?

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Continued here.