hi,
You could do both the parts of showing the Questions and Calculating and
doing the further processing with just servlets.I have done it for all types
of Questions(MC,MultipleSelect,TF,TextMatch....)with Media suport.
We can take a look of the working version presently at AnnaUniversity site.

Regards
Rajarshi Ghosh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Manjunath.K.Rane" <manju_rn@r...>
To: "Java Server" <pro_java_server@p...>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 5:21 AM
Subject: [pro_java_server] Re: Which architecture to choose....?


> Hi,
> This post might be too late for you, but still worth considering.
> Have u heard about Macromedia Flash??? yeah those Dynamic Colorful Screens
> which come up when u visit some sites. Have u ever thought that it can be
> Used as Full Fleged Client????
> Flash 5 from Macromedia can act as a Full Fledged Potential Client doing
> what other Thick Clients can do and Can still be Run over Browser, just
> like Thin Clients. It can Connect to any Server, be it ServerSocket,
> Servlets from Java Or be it ASP, COM. Moreover it communicates data with
> the Server thru XML, a Standard data Transfer Language. It is designed and
> tested for Client Machines(Meaning low end Machines with less memory and
> processing power, i generally call it typical Browsing Machines). Thats
> the reason why it doesn't have usual Problems of other clinets, like
> Memory Leekages, machine Hangovers, registry problems. And Of Course,
> everybody knows that at the Client side, Its the LOOK that matters, and in
> that who can challenge FLASH 5?????
>
> If this seems exciting to u, i would just be happy to send some code
> Samples.
>
> Hope it Helps,
> Manja
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I am writing an online exmination app which is supposed to run on the
> > intranet only (no Internet version). The contraints for the network are
> > the traffic congestion and low computation power on the server. The
tests
> > are supposed to be MCQ (multiple choice) type only. I have a collection
> of
> > questions in the DB (Oracle). I have to pass a random series of Q's to
> > users and record their responses and match them with the correct ones to
> > output the result at the end.
> >
> > The architecture I have choosen for the app is that I will use applets
as
> > the front-end and make the talk to servlets on the back-end to enable me
> > to minimize n/w traffic. All that will be transferred to the clients are
> > tiny strings of Questions and their choices, instead of the whole HTML
> > pages worth several KBytes. I plan to use HTTPTunneling discussed in the
> > book "Java Server Prog." (This supports for low n/w traffic and low
> > computatin for the server).
> >
> > Another option for me is to use "JavaScript" on the front end that
> formats
> > the inputs and output from the users and back to the servers. This way I
> > will have to reload the pages everytime to display the current status.
> >
> > I would like your criticism and advices about this and would appreciate
> > any other suggestions for other architectural changes. (Any XML big
shots
> > ?!!!)
> >
> > Would appreciate any response
> >
> > Affan
> >
> >
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