>> You could argue the same about .Net. I don't know the details >> with Java, but >> I would imagine you have the option to compile nativly at >> installation time. >> At the end of the day you still have the same code base/byte code, you >> can >> jsut do a number of different things with it. > > To my knowledge, it isn't that convenient; compilers to native code are > entirely separate from Java (3rd-party), and so the decision to go native > is > usually done at deployment time, so the end user may or may not get a > choice.
And couldn't you have just done that with some of the C++ gui frameworks out there that run and compile on multiple platforms? All the speed and portability you'd ever want. No? It's like the best of Java mixed with all the speed of C/C++. Doesn't make sense to me to keep staying with Java. _______________________________________________ msvc mailing list msvc@beginthread.com See http://beginthread.com/mailman/listinfo/msvc_beginthread.com for subscription changes, and list archive.
