Opensource GoogleGears

The last day I’m suffering from different thoughts. So I’ve decided to share’em with you.

It is really possible to create the application such as gears, but independent from Google, that will run on most platofrms and browsers. What we need:

  • Compile embeded MySQL (very lite edition) for most platforms (Windows, Linux and MacOSX, I believe that would be enough)
  • Create Java Applet and JNI-wrapping library to access MySQL
  • Create JavaScript library that will access MySQL through the applet

And that’s all. To use it you will need just to include the applet and JS-library into your page, after the first load applet will detect platform and will download embeded MySQL and native libraries.

Friday 14 Mar 2008 | Coding, MySQL, JavaScript

2 Responses to “Opensource GoogleGears”

  1. on 17 Mar 2008 at 1:58 pm   nikolay

    jnlp rocks :)

  2. on 17 Mar 2008 at 2:21 pm   Sergo

    It is already exist! Its name AIR! It
    - included SQLLite embedded database
    - running in vary platforms
    - you can create you own application on Flash/Flex/HTML/JavaScript

    http://www.adobe.com/products/air/

    But if you wish to run you app in web browser, just use Flex. It’s powerful and very close to Java on his idea. But Java miss that opportunity.

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