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Commercial view of Java ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Byrne, Michael D)
Tue Aug 29 20:30:01 1995
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From: "Byrne, Michael D" <Michael.D.Byrne@norwest.com> (Michael D. Byrne)
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 95 16:45:48 -0600
Commercially, Java has the potential to alter the significant support and
development mess most companies have made of "client-server" applications --
large ugly monoliths running on OS/2 and Windows 3.1, which frequently don't
scale and are hard to support.
The beauty of Java is that we can write platform independednt applications,
which must be reasonably decomposed into managable chunks, and delivered
as-needed over the network (no more sneaker-net).
So, what would I like to see in Java?
1. Persistence of objects at the workstation in a way more elegant than cache.
2. Automatic versioning of applets!! Get a new one if & only if you need
to, automatically.
3. People use a whole desktop, not necessarily just your application. Need
OLE or some good way to move applet data into a spreadsheet or
correspondence system or word processor (and no, I don't want to get a new
Java-based word processing package when we have 20,000 people to retrain.)
Co-existence with Microsoft.
4. Maintainable, supportable, debuggable, testable code and tools. Fancy
coders are more often a liability than an asset in the long run to my kind
of company. So, no operator overloading. Other non-rocket-scientist
members of the team must be able to easily read/modify the code.
5. A good way to (authenticated and encrypted) get to "legacy" data --
ODBC, DRDA.
6. A better way to build end-to-end applications; maybe a
publish-and-subscribe approach like ISIS or Technekron integrated into Java.
As far as I can tell, its Java versus Blackbird, and the winner may have
nothing to do with technical elegance. (Otherwise, Multics and ALGOL would
still be here.)
Michael D. Byrne (Michael.D.Byrne@norwest.com)
Voice: 612-667-0765 Fax: 612-667-9416
Speaking for myself, not my company...
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