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RE: The Future of Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Rubenstein)
Mon Aug 28 16:18:52 1995
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 22:02:11 -0400
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
From: ruby@name.net (Matthew Rubenstein)
>The primary reason VB captured the imagination of many corporate
>developers was never the language (which although cute is pretty lame),
>but the fact that a complete graphical development environment came
>right out of the box, and you could start laying out applications in minutes.
>
>Later on you might realize you needed 10 more widgets and that it would
>never be truly awesome code, but time to market and flexibility was king.
>
>Java captures some of this spirit for the professional developer used to C++.
>However, if VB is the target, then it's going to take an integrated package
>like VB, Delphi, NeXTStep, PowerBuilder or their ilk that supports Java.
>
>IMHO, the key differentiator between corporate or in-house developers and
>died in the wool permanent developers (or whatever term you prefer) is that
>knowledge of the application space and getting the corporation's job done
>are primary for in-house app., while being best of breed and winning awards
>and reviews with insanely great stuff is uppermost for groups whose final
>output is commercial software for resale.
>
>I'd love to see Java come with a rich and graphical object erector set
>environment, and only hope that one is on the way!
VB is popular because there are many VBXes (plug-in modules),
making the development of SW into a "5th generation" affair, with a
graphical front end to a system scripting language; a la the success of
Tk/TCL.
But what's this that I read in the September _DV_ (digital video
magazine), "DV News" pg 22:
>"When Sun Becomes Rad"
>Sun Microsystems' Java and HotJava has integrated with RAD Technologies to
>create Power-Media, a new multimedia authoring environment. The Java language
>allows creation of interactive apps within presentations or Web home pages; in
>PowerMedia [sic?] we get an authoring tool that creates multimedia apps for
>delivery over the Internet, client/server corporate networks, and CD-ROM.
>$2,500 for Sun, HP and SGI platforms; $995 for Mac and Windows.
?
From their website
( http://www.rad.com/rad/products/pm/pm.html )
it appears that it's a fairly complete environment. Multimedia developers
that I know (none of whom currently use any of their other products) have
heard of RAD. Do you know any more about this? Can I use this as a front
end to my Java compilation/VM experimentation? Is this the killer Java
development app?
--
Matthew Rubenstein North American Media Engines
Toronto, Ontario *finger matt for public key* (416)943-1010
Any technology, sufficiently advanced,
is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
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