> > > Maybe because NT is notorious for being very unfriendly to Java?
> >
> > Huh? NT is one of the best Java platforms around. It's relatively stable,
has
> > great JVM availability, has very stable JVMs, has a slew of IDEs and other
> > tools, has several very fast compilers....
> >
> > We do almost all development on NT for these reasons even though we
typically
> > deploy on Solaris (for scalability and core OS reliability).
>
> Pardon me, but...
>
> WRONG!
>
> It's been proven in court that Microsoft's JVM is utterly
> *non-compliant*, [...]
This is why we don't use the Microsoft JVM. There are several others,
including Sun's. In fact, Sun's JDK has always been available first on NT
*then* on SPARC -- sometimes (as in the case of Java2) separated by months!
> NT crashes way too frequently to be considered *alpha*
> quality software, [...]
I do not find this to be the case. My NT development systems stay up for weeks
at a time. Sure, they BSOD on me on occasion, but once every few months is not
a critical problem for a development system.
Now, if you're talking about deployment systems I'd say you're on the money.
NT is too unstable and not nearly scalable enough.
> Microsoft's IDE produces binaries that simply will not
> run on any platform except Win32 (again, proven in court)...
So don't use their IDE. There are several dozen others available. Personally
I just use emacs.
> "NT is one of the best Java platforms around" ? What have you been
> smoking?
"Best" is a matter of opinion, of course, but I figure that if it has the most
available JVMs, the most mature JVMs, the most available compilers, the most
mature compilers, the most available IDEs, the most mature IDEs, the most
available debugging tools, the most mature debugging tools.... Well, I'm sure
you get the picture.
jim
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