[3685] in java-interest
RFC "Off the Web Java"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (AlanFrye@aol.com)
Wed Nov 22 08:26:06 1995
From: AlanFrye@aol.com
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 00:21:28 -0500
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
I would like to issue a request for comments on current "off the Web" Java
development and thoughts on the future potential of Java as an application
development language (environment).
I noticed that the Beta 1 release seemed to be a refocus toward the original
Java goal - THE Internet development language. Since the Web is hot, this is
indeed an intelligent and really a much needed decision. However, I believe
the true strength of Java will actually lie in its internet (notice the lower
case "i") capabilities. The idea of a distributable, single source/rt
interpreted language running on various platforms is not new, but the Java
team has scratched the surface of what is really possible in the real-world
of grunt information system development.
I think Java has the potential to make a great tool (or, at least the basis)
for C/S develpment and whatever distributed architecture will follow. Anyone
who has worked a C/S system with 3, 4, or even more platforms using 2 or 3
different languages with a different compiler for each platform (ANSI seems
to popup a lot) interfacing native tools (also slightly different on each
platform) and etc., would truely appreciate what Java has to offer. I know
there are C/S tools that claim to over come and replace the archaic litany
of tools I just described, but I have yet to see one that truely delivers
(especially like Java could).
I realize that Java is still young, still maturing, intended primarily for
The Internet (as opposed to an internet), and from what I have seen, may be
used in its current incarnation to develop a private C/S system now, but full
application develpment capabilites are (in my opinion), yet to be fleshed out
(what about DB connectivity - do I have to implement that - I could - but in
the spirit of "language dependency", maybe...).
I understand the intent of Sun in Java. I am not issuing this as a
complaint. I only want to find out how far others have gotten, and how many
more may have the same interest in Java. Perhaps user supported application
libraries are the answer, or commercial libraries, or language dependencies -
I don't know, that's why I am writting this.
Thanks in advance...
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