The Java API comes free with Slingshot and is the primary way in which to display
streaming data in a browser. It is lightweight, simple to use and works across different broswers.
All the examples you will see in this site use the Java API.
The Java API consists of a Client API and a number of display applets.
The Client API can be used on its own and build custom Java applets or applications. The customisable
display applets allow web pages to be built very quickly providing the functionality to display: quotes,
quotelists, tickers, graphs and news. For the greatest degree of flexibilty the Java API also includes a
Javascript applet. This applet has no display of its own but simply manages a connection to the slingshot
server, requests data and passes back the updates as Javascript callbacks. This
allows web designers to utilize the full power of DHTML to seamlessly integrate streaming data into a
web page and display it however they like. |
