[AWS] Simple AWS App Design

Al Christians achrist@easystreet.com
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:11:28 -0700


I'm planning to use AWS to put a browser interface onto a windows
application.  I realize that these are not aws-specific questions,
but hoping that some others on this list have addressed them, I
beg indulgence and hope someone will share some good ideas. TIA.

It looks to me like the way to do that so that the user gets the 
simplest, easiest UI, is for the app to work as follows:

1. On app start up, an AWS server is started.

2. Start a web browser UI as in the gnatcom spin example.

3. The web browser is initialized with a URI that will ask the
server for the normal start-up page of the application. (No browsable
initial page on the user's disk, so he/she can't accidentally click 
on it before the server is started and wonder why no usable 
functionality results)

4. With all the toolbars and menus stripped off the browser (as in
the gnatcom spin example), I can be sure that the browser is only
talking to my server, AFAIK.

5. When user terminates the browser, the app shuts down the server.
I think that the gnatcom spin example shows how to catch the 
browser shutdown event.

Is that a good plan for a very simple app?  

TIA for any enlightenment.


Al Christians