On November 5, 2003 11:07 am, Ian Bruseker wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On November 5, 2003 10:49 am, Kevin Anderson wrote: > > I meant Java isn't good for server side Applications, period. Maybe not > > everything, but I'd hate to see Oracle run in a Java VM, for example. > > Most server side apps are developed to be ran natively, regardless of the > > OS. (Exchange, Sendmail, Apache, Oracle, Postgres, BIND, SAMBA, etc) > > > > Kev.
Question/comment...cant Java be compiled natively anyway? I know C is still faster with regards to high speed 3D stuff, but for data processing Java is pretty good, I think? VMs slow things down, but what about natively compiled Java? > > Hmmm. Not to start too much of a flamewar here, but you do know that > Oracle, since 8i, contains boatloads of Java code, right? You can even > write stored procedures in Java. And that the one place I see Java really > succeeding right now is on the server - think app servers like JBoss, > WebSphere, Bea, for example. I'm probably biased - DocVue, our product > here at Full Circle, is a server side app written in Java. So I may have > an opinion on the subject. But this is a Linux list, not a Java list, so > I'll shut up now. > > :-) > > Ian > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/qTx6SiY+RXI7JS4RArhuAKCez3v0HqEJfGQZxr9TIzVbzXWwTACg8l7D > GVAGSrcBshdEYbYO6dTXGOg= > =6OhZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221
