>Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 07:02:02 -0400
>From: "Thomas M. Sasala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Perhaps it takes a large API to reproduce something Apple, Microsloth,
>Sun, HP, etc. have been working on for 20 years.
>
> FWIW, I don't think the API has anything to do with write once,
>run no....um, any where. Clearly Microsoft has been able to turn
>Java in to a platform specific language with little help.
2 things:
Hey, I thought the consensus was that Visual J++ was NOT Java, even
though Microsquash was calling it Java. Which in turn, prompted one
of many suites filed by Sun? Did I get this right? Anyone know how
the lawsuit is coming along?
I think we all hope that someday "write once, run anywhere" will be a
true statement about Java.
-Larry Gates
> -T
>
>jools enticknap wrote:
>>
>> >I am wondering if Sun has overstretch itself in trying to develop so
>> >many APIs? It seems to me that they are struggling and there is enough
>> >support and help to help outsiders (like Blackdown who done an excellent
>> >job porting the software)?
>>
>> <brain dump>
>>
>> Perhaps this is a direct result of trying to bring an open technology to
>> market, and at the same time protect the one thing that makes Java useful in
>> the first place (write once, run everywhere(TM)).
>>
>> Also once a technology is invented it needs time for the comunity to
>> evaluate and comment on whats been done, and these comments must also be
>> evaluted and the next step then taken.
>>
>> This all takes time, however I for one and happy this does take place.
>>
>> As for porting assistance, I think that you will find that SUN has __very__
>> close links with the blackdown guys and do offer help when it's requested.
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