hi i dun know if this is the right place to post, if its not plz point me to it. my problem is that i want to run an IDE on a sserver and allow clients to access it n use it while thr is only one program runing on the server and the compilations and stuff is going on in tht program , not on the client. i will design the frontend for the clients to use. the problem is tht i only have the idea and no technical details how i can do this. i am a software engineering student and doin this for a project. my question is can this be done and if it can , just give me some pointers on how to do it. i dun want spoon feeding if u think thts the case but still some pointers on how to tackle it wud be great.... thanking in anticipation.... khizar
So you want to run everything on the server and just display stuff on the client? That can easily be done in a unix environment. Just look at http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/XoverSSH/X-over-SSH2.html If you want say a web interface with a java ide than that's an entirely different thing, altogether but probably doable depending on how many features you want in your ide. May I ask why you want to do this?
thank u so much for the reply...... the thing is we r a grp of 4 stdents n we r trying to do this project on cloud computing whr we wud set up a private cloud (or hybrid with storage on sum external server) which wud provide sum IDEs as a service. we wud be satisfying all the conditions for a cloud but to do tht we need to have a service. we r currently just trying to provide one IDE (preferably Eclipse) as a service to prove the concept n show its advantages. so i think we want a web interface for an IDE, n for it to be considered cloud computing, it has to do all compilations in the cloud i.e the servers. i hope tht clears a bit of wat i was trying to ask.....