Ok, I am very new to Java programming, I am currently a .net developer and I am interested in learning java. I am curious how dificult it is to make an ftp client applet with java. Is this something that I could make as I learned this, or is it a little too bold for someone new to java? Thanks for any advice
> Ok, I am very new to Java programming, I am currently
> a .net developer and I am interested in learning
> java. I am curious how dificult it is to make an ftp
> client applet with java. Is this something that I
> could make as I learned this, or is it a little too
> bold for someone new to java? Thanks for any advice
Honestly it's a little much in my opinion.
Here's why.
Getting the ftp library and slapping a GUI on it would take an experienced developer almost no time (let's say a couple of hours). For you longer but still not bad.
Then you hit a security roadblock. For obvious (hopefully) reasons you can't just access the local file system willy nilly in an applet by default. If you want to do this then you have to sign (digitally) the applet and ask permission.
Personally I think that makes for a project that would be relatively easy for a beginner to code and relatively extremely frustrating to actually deploy.
My suggestion? Do this but drop the applet part. Once you have it working and you like then you could move onto that.
