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Yes there certainly are such activeX things you can try For example, try this one http://3d2f.com/programs/10-025-vbskinner-pro-download.shtml

There are plenty of free hosters around - for a good list see here http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ If you want jsp then this one (http://forums.xisto.com/) seems to be the only one I can find. You could of course host a website on your own PC to start with - would need to install a webserver such as apache http://httpd.apache.org/ Good luck!

Yes you can learn Ajax without having to learn xml or javascript (perhaps surprisingly!). I think the best way is to use Google Web Toolkit which allows you to write all your code in java (not javascript). It then compiles it to javascipt for you. It is far easier to write in java because you have very powerful IDEs to help you (eg Eclipse, IntelliJ Idea) See http://www.gwtproject.org/?csw=1

It's quite simple. At the top level directory where you have you .class files (typically classes or bin diretory) create a file called run.bat (assuming you are using windows). Edit the file using Notepad and put the following in it: java -cp . yourClass arg1 arg2 where yourClass is the class that runs you program - the one with the main function. arg1 and arg2 are two example arguments you want to pass to your main function (optional depending on your program) Then just double click the run.bat file to run it. Copy this top level directory to another machine to run it from there For more see http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Good luck! And don't be daunted by all this - it will become very simple after a while

hello, I'm here, like perhaps most of you for some decent good value hosting. Seems like this virtual money system is an interesting way to go about it. Is it a non-profit making organisation ?Anyway, I've started experimenting with Google's GWT (http://www.gwtproject.org/?csw=1) (write a web app fully in Java and it compiles the client-side bit to javascript and handles all the RPC stuff for you) - great for AJAX development where you don't need to go anywhere near that scarey javascript code and can sit in the comfort of your friendly java IDE all the time!