My opinion on (a) is that this is probably more trouble than it's worth. There's a huge push to make all UI "browser-based" -- but frankly, browsers aren't well designed for truly interactive GUIs and aren't all that compatible from platform to platform either, so you have compatibility issues no matter what you do. As I see it, the browser as interface has only a couple things going for it:

If you really need a more interactive GUI interface, then I think that java is the way to go since it was explicitly designed for the task of providing a platform independent gui. Yes, it has some quirks, too, but I think a lot fewer. And some version of it is also now likely to be installed on many modern systems. (E.g., Windows)

And for those of us who just can't give up perl -- which of course we don't want to do -- why not combine the two with Inline::Java. The 2003 Perl Advent Calendar has an article on Using Java as a perl GUI that shows how this might be done.

-xdg

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