> That all said, I'm seriously wondering how many recivsion Delphi has left in it with
> java more and more looking like a good solution for the Clustered Server, centralised
> processing, thin-client, multitier model everyone is pushing these days ;)
>
> I get the impression Borland is trying to prepare themselves for this eventuality and
> that Delphi 5 or 6 might be the last in the delphi line... Let's hear it for ORACLE8i
> and JBuilder3 apps with both ends being Java based and sharing an object model.
My take on this (and if in doubt, read the bottom of my .sig):
Delphi aint dead yet. Not by a long shot. The integration of Delphi and
Java via CORBA
is a good one - you can have your PC's at one end, which everyone is
familiar with, and nice, big UNIX boxen at the back end running the
business logic and databases. The client stays thin (the JVM is NOT
thin, either on disk usage or memory, hotspot it WAY worse), the network
is not saturated if you do it right, and the server can be upgraded to
your hearts content. OH, and its a piece of piss to write.
Try it someone if you have JB2/3 and Delphi 4 - it really is very easy.
It'll get a lot easier if/when there is an IDL2PAS compiler, but for the
moment, its just a little inconvenient.
BTW, anyone out there actually wrote a proper, production AWT or worse,
SWING app? I'm sure your hardware vendor was happy when you bought that
quad PIII 650 and the gig of RAM to run it at the same speed as a native
Delphi app on a P200.
Java, the language and environment, rocks. some of its libraries leave a
LOT to be desired.
Nic.
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