G’day All,
Does anyone know of a good RSS JAVASCRIPT ticker that can be incorporated into a website to display an RSS feed in ticker style?
Cheers,
Dave.
That sounds like an oxymoron. How can anything that includes Java be classed as good 
The performance hit of initialising the JVM on demand puts me off using it. I try my best to avoid sites which insist on using Java for this reason. The web is supposed to be dynamic and I find the 30-45 seconds delay waiting for the JVM to load is anything but dynamic.
Hi Dave,
This is a good one and it’s free - http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/rsstickerajax/
Ciao,
Michael
That’s Ajax based, so it uses JavaScript rather than Java.
Exactly… I specifically single out Java scrollers in my Top 10 Weather Website mistakes.
Java = bad
Javascript = good
No scroll, just highlighted with color = best 
Unfortunately I think there are a lot of people who don’t know the difference #-o
I’m thinking that Dave probably meant Javascript, a lot of people refer to it as just “Java” 
And I think there are a lot of people out there who don’t give a rat’s … Adn are willing to wait a few seconds for Java to init…
If it was just a few seconds then I don’t think you’d see quite so many discussions in various places (including long running threads on the Java support site) asking how to get rid of the delay. There is no way to get rid of the delay, unless Sun come up with a new JVM loader to get round the problem.
Just curious what connection people have when this happens. It takes 3-5 seconds at the most for mine to init and run a java applet… :roll: There are so many sites that run other scripts and applets that take forever to load even on a DSL or Cable connection that turns me off… But the Java applet I run and have seen on other sites seem to run very quickly… I wonder if there is other issues affecting the Java applet…
Jim
I don’t see where you’re running Java… :scratch:
But it looks :crybaby: when viewing with FF1.5
It’s not the applet that runs slowly across the network. It’s when the JVM has to be loaded onto a PC. I’m particularly conscious of this due to a new web based Oracle App Server system we’re developing at work. OAS uses Java so we get a hit when we load the app. I’ve measured delays of 25-45 seconds to launch a basic display (no processing required). It’s not a server issue…3.6GHz Xeon with 4GB RAM with one user accessing it across a Gigabit ethernet LAN). The client PC is fairly typical of many current PCs…XP Pro, 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM and a 100Mbps Ethernet connection.
If you’ve already got the JVM loaded from a previous instance of the app it’s much quicker, but this is our only Java based app, so every user sees the delay when they try to access the system. It’s definitely a JVM instantiation issue…we’ve done a lot of digging on the Oracle and Java web sites to try to find a fix and there isn’t one.
EOD.
Like “military intelligence” ??? 
The performance hit of initialising the JVM on demand puts me off using it. I try my best to avoid sites which insist on using Java for this reason. The web is supposed to be dynamic and I find the 30-45 seconds delay waiting for the JVM to load is anything but dynamic.
Been thinking about replacing the scrollitup java on my website, but never quite get beyond thinking about it… any suggestions ?? 
[scrollitup scrolls a text file and can be paused or scroll direction reversed by the end user]
g’day all,
hmmm… Where i’ve said java replace with javascript… thats wot you get for typing too quick and not proof reading. Will have a play with the ajax one
Cheers & thanks for those who responded.
Dave.