The Labs.Com Web Lab Java Hype

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Promises and Reality of a Hyped Language

1. Introduction
2. My Applet
3. Resources

Java, I don't see it taking off really. Looking at the philosophy (ignoring all the hypes), the final programs seem stable, just the browsers can't handle it (most browsers stall or crash after loading some java-intensive sites).

My 15 years programming-experience tells me GUIs should be interpreter-based, like PerlTK or TCL/TK does, but not compiler based, one of the main disadvantages of Java beside of the browser problems.

In short Java doesn't play much if any importance in my programmer life as you see below.

JVM

The only interesting aspect of Java I came accross (June 2001) is the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which interprets the byte-code can be used by other languages: JVM Languages Good overview of other languges running on JVM Especially the perljvm got my attention :-)

Java Hype 2. My Applet

NeXTClock NeXTStep alike clock

This experience was sufficient not to write another applet and drop Java entirely from my agenda.

Java Hype 3. Resources

Java.Sun.Com Primary Site

Developer.com: Java Collection of applets and Java-prgs

Developer.com: Java Books Online books

                                                                                                                                   

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