Dear Java (/ JSP) Experts,
Do you all agree with the following statement by Simson Garfinkel (full
story is accessible at
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/garf/2001/01/08/bad_java/email.html? Any
strong point to backup my investment on using JSP & Java related
technologies?
Thank you very much in advance.
Sazilah
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Java: Slow, ugly and irrelevant
The programming language once hailed as a revolutionary breakthrough is
no substitute for simply
training good programmers.
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By Simson Garfinkel
Jan. 8, 2001 | I hate Java. As a programmer, I hate Java, the language,
for what it has done to the
field of programming. As a journalist, I hate the relentless hyping of
Java by its supporters, as well as
their unending excuses as to why Java has failed to deliver. And as a
technologist who has been
involved with three major projects that have used Java, I hate the
complications that Java has caused.
I will concede that it is possible to use Java to create small
applications that are downloaded over the
Web and run within Web browsers. Over the past month, I've actually run
into two such Java-based
applications that worked pretty well. The first was a Java-based
mortgage calculator that dramatically
shows the financial advantage to pre-paying your home mortgage -- paying
just $50 extra on a $733
monthly mortgage payment can save you $40,196 over the course of an 8
percent, 30-year loan. I was
also particularly impressed by the Yahoo Finance Java-based portfolio
manager, which lets you rapidly
compare a large set of stocks using dozens of different variables.
But such examples are exceptions rather than the rule. The vast majority
of the
high-profile attempts to use Java to create major desktop applications
have failed.
The reasons are straightforward. Java hype is built on the promulgation
of two Big
Lies. No. 1: Java is as fast, or faster, than other programming
languages. And No. 2:
Java is "portable" -- it is "write-once, run-everywhere" -- in other
words, a Java
program can be written once and then run on any kind of computer or
operating
system. But five years after Java's introduction, it is still slow and
cumbersome, and
not only has the "write-once, run-everywhere" promise not been delivered
on, it's
also turned out to not even be necessary. ........
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