"Dear Sir,

I am a post graduate student of Information Technology at IIITMK(India). Actually related with project work i want to call some programs or interfaces like oracle , putty, some other clients program or just Dos command propmt through web based interfaces (JSP/HTML pages) in Windows 2000 professional. Do u have some idea how this can be done.Yours Sincerely,Niraj kumar"

A post-graduate?!

Holy crap.

Is he saying he wants some kind of remote desktop functionality through a web browser?

I read that paragraph five times, and that's the best guess I can come up with.

Why's he asking you?

Do you mean what are his intentions or why is he asking me and not someone else? If the latter, then the answer is that it came as feedback via my website. I seem to attract questions like this from our Indian friends.

Yeah, the latter. I didn't notice that you have instructory articles on your site which sort of explaines it. At least it's not as random as I first thought.

Heh, and you didnt sympathize with me when I have to put up with such people all the time 24/7/365.
And btw that started off the great Indian fight here:
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.286072.33

> Why's he asking you?

Maybe _what_ is he asking needs answering first.

He is probably looking for advice on how to write a DB app with an oracle backend and web front, with administration functionality through telnet/SSH and commandline tools.

LOL PNII

ahhh yes, perfectly clear now that you've pointed it out Eric. How could I have missed that :b

In retrospect, i guess i shouldn't have even bothered.