Thursday, 29 November 2007

ICEfaces WebMC on GlassFish


WebMC is an ICEfaces demo application that lets you host a slide presentation over the internet. Really, it's more than a demo, because it's a very useful piece of software, potentially saving you money on WebEX (you can present your slides and host the audio over Skype, all for free). The complete source code is available, so you can host the slideshow server securely within your corporate firewall.

The latest build has two notable features:

  • PowerPoint conversion is now performed. Besides accepting .zip files containing slide images, WebMC now also directly accepts PowerPoint files. To benefit from this feature you must be running WebMC on MacOS X with Microsoft PowerPoint installed. Alas, the implementation of this feature required a detour into AppleScript and VisualBasic (but Apple must be complimented on the integration of AppleScript with the Unix shell).
  • GlassFish Grizzly Comet is enabled. This means that all your friends and colleagues can join the slideshow without a thread catastrophe on the server. GlassFish provides a highly scalable way to deploy ICEfaces applications.

Note that this isn't a final build -- we're still working towards ICEfaces 1.7DR3 and you will need to use a promoted build of GlassFish 9.1_01 to get the version of Grizzly that works best with ICEfaces.)

Oh, and one more thing. It works on the iPhone.

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