it's a good idea, the task seems very simple now: get the ".jzip"(this ahven't anme yet, right?) file, upack it, read metaconfig and open the main document.

the rest seems natural: relative paths everywhere, define all possible config options, a sample runtime able to handle that zip file and - of course - gather more people arround the idea!

2009/1/6 Jerason Banes <jbanes@...>

I think we're on the same wavelength here. I was also thinking something along the lines of a JAR for Javascript. Here's the RFC I posted on the WiiCade forums on that idea:

http://www.wiinode.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6194

However, it's probably best to ditch the extra MANIFEST.MF and/or WEB-INF data. Those are Java-specific forms of Meta Data. I was thinking of a similar idea, but in JSON format:

http://www.wiinode.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6196

The nice thing about using JSON is that it leaves the option open for client-based integration. e.g. Rather than having a JSP or PHP page write out an IFRAME or include the script, I could have a bit of AJAX code read the extracted manifest from the server and generate the correct elements to display the application.

Thanks!

Jerason

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