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01. September 2005

A Plaze to be with a signed Java Applet?
Random Thought (wiki) | Geodata (wiki) - urs @ 09:23:08

chregu [1] recently bookmarked Codeplaze [2], a code repository for the Plazes site. Instead of using their Javascript Badge I went for the XML-RPC variant to link to the current Plaze of being. Unfortunately there is no way to run a Launcher on some (restricted) systems, and therefore one turns out to be plazeless sometimes.

You haven't used the Launcher to log on, therefore you are "plazeless". You cannot search for people or Plazes by radius.

Apart from binaries there is also a Python launcher [3]. That is ok, if Python works on your system. So I was looking around for a signed Java Applet which gets access to the machines MAC address [4]. I am not sure, if at all, a launcher is programmable as signed Java Applet [5], but it would be fun to have a platform independent Launcher anyway. Maybe there will even be a non-Java Plazes Launcher Firefox extension one day, but that is just a guess.

[1] http://blog.bitflux.ch/p2681.html
[2] http://codeplaze.com
[3] http://kybernet.org/wiki/index.php/PyPlazes
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
[5] http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=648213&start=15&tstart=0

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Comment by leo @ 2005-09-05 14:54:47:

That's all a bit hard about the very hardware near network programming in Java because there's no abstraction for this now. But perhaps in the near feature I will give them a try (and write some notes in my blog).

Comment by Thorsten Zoerner @ 2006-09-10 09:11:48:

There is actualy a Plazes.com launcher for Java now. This launcher is using native methods to check the plaze. The Plazes launcher itself is available as Java Webstart Application on: http://www.cyber-junk.de/ws/plazes/jwsplazes.jnlp