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Re: Request opinion about workabillity of java as it is now

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Cline)
Fri Sep 8 21:03:59 1995

Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 14:23:17 -0700
From: gandalf@hamlet.viman.com (Matt Cline)
To: java-interest@java.sun.com

> At this moment I am designing a service that will alow anyone with WWW to 
> locate and preview satellite images. The first version should be ready in 
> December. I now have less than two weeks to give my recommendations about 
> the technical design.
> I have two options:
> 1) I design the server without Java.
> 2) I design the server with Java. 
>  
> The second one is my prefered option (even though I haven't programmed in
> Java yet). Using Java would greatly improve the interface, and remove some
> load of the server (wich of course means faster response).
> 
> I want to know if Java as it is available now (or within 6 weeks) would be
> able to run such a service. And I want to know if the bugs that are in Java
> at this time would jeopardize the project (not to mention my time-table wich
> is very tight and wich I can not extend)

Well, if you gave us some idea of what you were trying to offload from
the server to the Java applet, we might be able to give a better answer.
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