[MLB-WIRELESS] Re: random stuff... was: hardware database online

[Matthew Vella]

I think that Java, as you say, when used for putting "smarts" into webpages
has been a bit of a flop as well as a security and standards nightmare.

Forget about applets on webpages and write applications instead.

When full applications are written, and then deployed using Java Web Start
(http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/index.html ) you end up with a
very nice single-click install, cross-platform GUI (or text) app development
environment that doesn't have a rival (ok Korg, show us the SQL support in
sdl!).

As an application development platform, I am sold.  There is so much stuff
out there, and the "compile once, run anywhere" paradigm really does work
(we have 17 different platforms here that we use for testing our Java
Applications - the code only has to be compiled once, and it runs
everywhere, even looking like a native app under the various GUIs).

But choosing a programming language always was a very personal thing :-)

Matt.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Studds" <foch at optushome.com.au>
To: <melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Re: random stuff... was: hardware database
online


> now when i said crossplatform, i meant that the code would basically
> work with a few OS calls changed (and maybe some other minor syntax
> changes). Java is great and all, but I'm yet to see a single
> situation where it *works.*
> Java applets usually require a different version depending on
> platform (thanks, microsoft) and java on the web loads slow and
> doesn't do anything that can't be done (faster) in one of the
> macromedia products. Basically, I'm biased against its use. It was
> good on paper last century, but when all has been said and done, it's
> a broken cart.
>
> >If cross platform is what you want, then there is only one choice -
Java -
> >especially if you want anything GUI.
> >
> >The old Tk is looking pretty worn out next to the capabilities of Swing
:-)
> >
> >Matt.
>
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