I am a final year software student and we are creating a dashboard software in these days. Our primary objective is to create the software in Java, because we are a 'Java Team'. However we have a new member who knows PHP. Now the issue.
He says he can create the 'Retrieve data and Display data' part in PHP. But we have already created 'Data Input Wizard' in JavaSE. My question is, is that is OK to deploy our JavaSE app as a 'Java Web Start' ? So everything can be on server. But is that is good? I feel like a mess because in Java web start you have to download the software (am I correct?) and PHP is in web browser, ahhhhh!!
..is that is OK to deploy our JavaSE app as a 'Java Web Start'?
Sure. A rich client desktop app. (e.g. Swing based) launched using Java Web Start, can phone home to the server it came from (even when sand-boxed) and act as the consumer for a web-service created using PHP, JSP, ASP..
As mentioned by @Aksel, there needs to be a JRE on the client, that is what the deployment script aims to ensure.