apparently, one of the biggest drawbacks when using applets on websites is the long initial delay while the JVM is starting up and the applet is loading (compare this to flash where you can rather easily achieve an ‘instant on’ impression). i am currently looking for a sane solution to deploy stuff using a wrapper applet that loads very quick and consequently serves as a framework to load the rest of the app while already running and doing, erm, stuff. is there anyone who has done something in this direction and could provide some hints and pointers how to? [mind you, i am concerned about the actual application code and libraries, not about media like images etc.]


- sb

ps, if there was any proper way to do it, i think it should be incorporated into processing itself.