On Sunday 17 February 2002 23:25, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: >. . . > Or worse: what if Sun, close to bankrupcy, sells out its java > division to some company which is much more solid on software > marketing (somewhere around redmond, anyone?) > > Sure, you can count on me writing my own JVM before giving up, but > that's not the point. Java WORA works, but it's fake and it's still > built on new-economy's sand. >...
On the other hand, the installed base of java code is soooo big that you can count on "someone" writing (and maybe selling, fine with me as there would be competition in this case) a decent JVM should sun stop give away its own JVM. IMHO this makes this WORA a minor argument in favor of using native code instead of java. Performance is a different thing, provided native parsers/processor bring a definite improvement. >From a system administrator's point of view though, the more libraries/languages/runtime features are needed to run a product, the more problems can happen. For me this is an argument to keep the all-java version of Cocoon the standard, and maybe have native code *options* for performance-critical components. -- -- Bertrand Delacrétaz, www.codeconsult.ch -- web technologies consultant - OO, Java, XML, C++ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
