>Could the JDM become the common platform ?
>why not use that as the DM for NT ?
Yes! However I must add that at the present time, Java is still slow
compared to dm. As the language and virtual machines (VM) improve,
especially with the addition of JIT's (just in time compilers),
then I believe jdm can reach acceptable speeds. Java started out 20x
slower, and is now about 7x slower (still "interpreted"). Native
compilers are on the way, so that the same source code could either
be compiled to portable byte code and run anywhere, or compiled to
native code and run on that specific platform. Native compilers for
x86 are rumored to be running already, and I think Sun has an in-house
native compiler for Solaris. I think we'll reach the 2x mark in a year
(slower than original hope). And, you can run it all inside Netscape
or (scrunching up face) Internet Explorer.
(climbing onto soapbox now...)
Java is a Wonderful language! I much prefer it to C++ or any other
obsolete language. ;-> It has a clean interface to threads, and to
dynamic linking (in fact, it is almost zero effort, just like VxWorks).
It is the perfect invironment to create an easily extensible tool.
It would be conceptually trivial to create an interface builder which knows
nothing about its widgets except their name, and each widget supplies its
own customization window, or provides a list of attributes. This is well
standardized by the Java-Beans specification, which also includes a
well thought out event (like X event) propagation mechanism.
Chip
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