starting a standalone java application from a browser

[Dotun Dipeolu]

hello everyone,
i am new to java and i am trying to launch a desktop java application from a browser, Jmeter precisely. i want to pass a .JMX file to it from the browser then get it running on a click of a button from a browser. please i will like to know if this is possible and how. i will apprecate your warmly response
thanks in advance
dotman

[William Brogden]

Where is the application supposed to start? On the same computer as the browser? on a server somewhere?

Bill

[Dotun Dipeolu]

Thanks Bill, yeah on the same machine as the browser.

[Bear Bibeault]

Sounds like a job for Java Web Start (aka JNLP).

[Dotun Dipeolu]

yeah i am looking at that but remember i need to load a file unto the application via the browser as well. so am not certain if java web start can do that

[Maneesh Godbole]

Have a page which will let you upload the file to the server
Process the file
Have a servlet/jsp return the JNLP link to the user.

[Dotun Dipeolu]

hi Maneesh, could you be more explicit

[Maneesh Godbole]

Which part of my reply did you not understand.

I just outlined a way in which you can pass a jmx file to the server and based on that file get a jnlp link. Is this not what you want to do?