I think this might be balled up with the confusion on Javascript<http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp> /Actionscript <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript>... Java<http://www.java.com/en/> (developed at Sun Microsystems I believe then recently bought by Oracle) is once again a totally separate beast, I know the guys who came up with the names for these things seem like they must have been trying to confuse future generations of programmers (sounds like programmer humor to me), anyhow Java once again it's own thing. Although there are some frameworks for developing RIAs (rich internet applications, which is an umbrella term for things on the web that act like an application... persistence through DBs and drag and drop and things that just feel like native windowing things) in Java such as Pivot, I've not found it to be the best for web development, lots of prompts still for installing this or that for Java and updates and whatever, Flash has just done a better job with all of that, despite the fact that Java is a more robust language in terms of features, but then C++ is more robust than Java in features and I also would not suggest using that to develop RIAs that you expect to be deployed on a huge amount of processors/OSes which would all need compilation and testing (C# is attempting to fill the hole, but still no love for the Linux folks, how bout android, what about chromium tablets, how bout thinking of the future :).
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