Way back in '05 at JavaOne the use of browser-side (Java) DB (Derby) was demo'd, a browser's JavaScript has access to local Java classes through the next-gen browser plugin so it can access DBs, webservers, etc. via the applet's classpath. The author's blog is here, it has some interesting topics e.g. server-side push to a web client that has local storage in Derby. See also this article on synchronizing an offline DB with an online DB, or this one - embedding a webserver into the browser.
Could we utilize this idea and offer clients an offline-mode usage pattern for our SmartClient-enable browser-apps?
P.S. Here is a NetBeans-specific tutorial on Derby
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