From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,517611567e1815f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Simon Wright Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ? Date: 1999/05/09 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 477119512 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 References: <372b0ec7.28153993@news2.ibm.net> <3728E60E.F789FD8@uq.net.au> <37299369.83779478@news2.ibm.net> <7gdlca$2j5l@drn.newsguy.com> <372f0ed9.104817048@news2.ibm.net> <7ghad5$1mma@drn.newsguy.com> <372d6106.5099983@news2.ibm.net> <7gsk7k$5fr@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <37333a43.181207462@news.mindspring.com> <7h399g$4nb@drn.newsguy.com> <7h42q1$155v@drn.newsguy.com> X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 926536754 nnrp-06:13763 NO-IDENT pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 Organization: At Home Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Date: 1999-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: bill@nospam writes: > In article <7h399g$4nb@drn.newsguy.com>, steve says... > >example: > > > >http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/cfparse > > > >You'll see the platform is windoz. but it is written in Java. > > I think this is just a packaging issue. IBM 'alpha works' programmers > are too lazy to use generic packaging, they seem to use windows specific > ways to install the software which will not work on Unix systems. I'm just doing some Java work, _endless_ trouble with methods being available/deprecated/not available in various browsers -- and then the browser locks itself up because I suspended a thread in an applet -- yecch. Seems it's going to take a lot of effort to make sure this thing works in the browser I'll be actually using. At least it doesn't have to work in every browser in the world (yet :-)