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Re: Java Standalone apps?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Marsh)
Fri Feb 23 13:13:16 1996
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 09:48:13 -0500
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: John Marsh <jmarsh@mitre.org>
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>From: Greg Urban <urban@fridge.ccci.com>
>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:32:41 -0500 (EST)
>Subject: Re: Java Standalone apps?
>
>On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Mark Aran Aiken wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Forgive my ignorance in posting a general question that must appear
>> in a document that I haven't read but tried hard to find...
>>
>> Do any of the IDEs currently adopting Java, or any tool at all, allow
>> the creation of stand-alone binaries for specific platforms?
>
>Why would you want to write for a specific platform. Java's primary
>advantage over most other languages is its architecture independence.
>
Couple reasons - 1) Performance (obvious - until we get compile on the
fly systems). 2) Use of Java because it is a superior language to C++, but
you want to call some special hardware not supported by Java.
>
>> I've seen
>> assorted announcements of people developing Real Apps in Java, and
>> Sun's release of the Java chips (!) obviously is intended to diversify
>> Java beyond small applets embedded in Web pages.
>
>Yes. You can use Java to write stand-alone applications that run on any
>machine that is supported by teh Java run-time environment.
>
You can also write fancy client sides of client/server and ORB systems using
1) the Java socket connections, 2) libraries built on those connections
including database client libraries (soon including JDBC) and CORBA ORB clients
from IONA for ORBIX, SUN for NEO, and PostModern for OrbEline.
>
>
>Greg U.
>
John Marsh
Mitretek Systems, Inc.
jmarsh@mitretek.org
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