{"id":5954,"date":"2011-02-19T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T21:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2011-02-19T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T21:53:07","slug":"server-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5954","title":{"rendered":"Server side"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent set of posts that allow people reading this blog to make persistent<\/i> changes to my Java applets is making use of a capability provided by Murphy Stein — a Ph.D. student in the NYU Department of Computer Science.<\/p>\n

Murphy wrote two computer programs that are sitting on my web-site (commonly referred to as the server side<\/i>):<\/p>\n

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  1. a program that waits until a Java applet sends it some data, and then writes that data to a file on the web-site’s host computer;\n

  2. a program that waits until a Java applet asks for some data, and then retrieves the data from that same file.\n<\/ol>\n

    It’s not very fancy, but it completely gets the job done. Basically, this allows each Java applet to keep its very own persistent record of what’s going on — like having your own locker at the gym.<\/p>\n

    Of course every Java applet uses its locker differently. Some might store little bits of text, while others store instructions about how to draw a picture.<\/p>\n

    But what they all have in common is that they allow people to make changes that will be remembered when somebody else visits the site. Which is very cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The recent set of posts that allow people reading this blog to make persistent changes to my Java applets is making use of a capability provided by Murphy Stein — a Ph.D. student in the NYU Department of Computer Science. Murphy wrote two computer programs that are sitting on my web-site (commonly referred to as … Continue reading “Server side”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5958,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions\/5958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}