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chris <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote:
 
: Yeah but why go to the hassle of recompiling on X architectures when you 
: can use Java and run the same binary on all the systems the DB runs on 
: and lots it does not through JDBC?

Because you can't. A JVM is by far not enough to do real work.
For this you need libraries usually not written in Java (data bases,
system stuff, image processing, ...). 

: Now a portable GUI would be good.

For what? A GUI needs care and if you want just an input dialogue
for three numbers, little time is needed to create them in a way
that suits some OS.