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From: David Botton <David@Botton.com>
Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ?
Date: 1999/05/10
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Now you know some one who does, and I know many more :) Only J++ allows
access to COM and many other facilities, so it is the only choice for
some applications (unless you want to start writing JNI from the start.)
J++ didn't fail, it is being dumped in response to Sun.

David Botton


Steve wrote:
> 
> 
> the java packages that come in the JDK are decfacto standard, the Java
> language as defined by the Sun 'Java language' reference book is defacto
> standard, and so is the JVM.

Nope.

> 
> No one I know uses J++, not even on windows. J++ was another attempt
> by M$ to stop Java as it knew Java is making windows irrelevent. This
> attempt had failed by all acounts. And J++ is effectively dead.
> 
> Steve.