[1783] in java-interest
Re: JDK Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Brown)
Sat Sep 16 23:40:21 1995
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:24:39 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <9509151848.AA07569@alapa.Eng.Sun.COM> from "Thomas Ball" at Sep 15, 95 11:48:14 am
From: phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown)
>
> Baloney! All of Sun's browsers will support the sun classes,
> regardless of the hardware or operating system they run on. The "sun"
> hierarchy includes classes we've developed which aren't part of the
> Java standard our licensees (and ourselves) are bound by. Netscape has
> the right to develop a "netscape" set of classes if they wish, and
> other licensees may wish to develop their own.
I think tcp/ip networking is rather platform independant.
To say someone will only want to use network functionality if they are
running on a sun, is silly.
They should have left the net stuff in net.*, actually.
If sun+netscape chooses not to have the net.* classes in the common
"mandatory" standard for java, fine.
But THEY SHOULD STILL BE IN net.* !!!
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