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Re: Commercial view of Java ... (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rawn Shah)
Fri Sep 1 17:02:38 1995

From: Rawn Shah <rawn@rtd.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:10:31 -0700 (MST)

: 
: Don't just use numbers, but include the suppliers name, so numbers only need
: to be locally tracked.  Versions then keep a history of development.  This
: can give a hint where to find the applet too. 

Agreed. Simpler yet: keep a URL to a version database which keeps the 
proper record.

: Whatever gets implemented, PLEASE make it a non-blocking transfer, don't
: use CORBA!  I've never heard of anything so stupid as a distributed single
: thread of control...  Maybe base it on the underlying OLE foundation, or
: some thin layer on top of UDP.

Honestly, I'd admit, I haven't dived too far into CORBA. OLE looks 
interesting but like the MFC overlay to OLE, we may need a super-layer to 
the low level OLE stuff as well.


:    _____________________________________________________________________
:   |  David E. Smyth                         David.E.Smyth@jpl.nasa.gov  |_
:   |_____________________________________________________________________| |


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