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Eric et al, You could get around the writability by using a usb drive. You could even use QEMU on it and not have to reboot. This might be helpful: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb-qemu.html I haven't tried this, but it looks interesting. It sound like your solution can be complex as long as the complexity is suitably hidden from the end-user, right? If so, building a complete environment shouldn't be too much of an issue. -John ________________________________________________________ John Millard Head of Digital Initiatives and Associate Librarian Miami University Libraries Oxford, OH 45056 (513) 529-6789 More info: http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/~millarj/ On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Iglesias, Edward G. (Library) wrote: > The only problem I see with using knoppix is the write issue. Knoppix > is read only by default though you can change that. Still, this is > now a > complete environment, not an application. > > My $ .02 > > Edward Iglesias > Systems Librarian > Central Connecticut State University > 860.832.2082 > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >> Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan >> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:38 AM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] java application on a cd >> >> On Oct 17, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Susan Teague Rector wrote: >> >>> I was thinking last night - you mentioned not being able to do an >>> applet b/c of access to the file directory. You could do a signed >>> applet that would allow your users to connect to the java >> app. I think >>> Tomcat, etc. is overkill for a CD... >> >> >> Maybe I could go the Knoppix route. >> >> If I'm go to all the trouble of indexing my data, writing a >> servlet/ applet, and installing a Web server (say Jetty), >> then I might as well a TEI/XML editor, some way to annotate >> texts, tools to build additional TEI/XML texts, etc. The best >> way to package all of this up might be with Knoppix, and if I >> use such a tool, then I could write my things in different >> languages, not necessarily Java. >> >> -- >> Eric "Just Musing" Morgan >>