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Hi,
I fear that what I am trying to do does not work at all, but I want to be sure ...
What I am trying to do is log in using a browser and then use that session from a Web Start application.
(Fire and forget BasicService showDocument(URL); calls).
I do not want to store login or session data in the application.
Using the same tab/window/server side session does work for example from a mail client.
I already read that a target can only be specified from applets because the browser is a "stranger" from the Java application's pov.
But how is the Mail client different?
Is there a way to tell the server that the same PC called the URL that logged in earlier and wants to use the active server side session?
Edited by: Signature on Aug 7, 2008 5:50 PM
Edited by: Signature on Aug 8, 2008 12:29 AM

Answer 1

I wouldn´t suggest using this coding style..
web.show_document('javascript:window.close();','_self');
Why ? Well its seems to me you would want to centralise your javascript in one place.
Why not use ..
web.show_document('html/close.html','_self');
..and then add the javascript to the close.html file.
If things should change in the future( add extra javascript..) you only have to edit close.html and not all the forms where you added this call.
Ofcourse you have to define aan extra virtual mapping
for /html/ in the web-orion file for the developer installation and/or the forms90 config file for the application server installation.
Seems a better alternative.
greetings Dave