I have dream …
The idea is simple …
At the present time a game module is launched in a local computer to play online with others …
But, my dream will be to put a module directly in a provider directory and to launch it over the web with a simple browser … I’m not skilled enough in developement, but i have seen words like servlet in java …
A good way too to create plenty of vassal own servers … if the main one is down …
I have seen this concept in a game Engine named Game Factory 2, in which after the module creation, you can convert it and using a dedicated plugin in Active X technology allows to play it online in a simple browser …
Thus spake “soft-bug”:
There’s two problems with this that I see:
A lot of newer modules are quite large. With today’s network speeds,
no one would want to wait to redownload a 50MB module each time they
use it. Now that we have file associations (at least on Windows and
Macs), it should be possible to open a .vmod directly from your browser,
though.
Launching VASSAL from WebStart (the Java web launcher for apps) was
so problematic for people that we’ve dumped it for 3.1.
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J.
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could you elaborate on the webstart problems? I’m a fan of webstart as we use it a lot at work and am wondering where the problems came up with vassal?
The most annoying bug is that Mac OS, throws an exception when trying to patch a jar file (running jardiff on the server). The only way around it is to clear the file cache so that you download everything fresh. Other than that, it’s mostly convenience: people like being able to copy files onto a flash drive to install on a non-networked computer or they want an easy way to adjust the memory allocation.
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