UNIX admin wrote:
Other people have addressed the other issues you raised, I'll address
this one:
I'm thinking that Java failed to deliver on the promise of "write
> once, run anywhere". Java programs developed on Windows do not, up to
> this present day, work on Solaris;
That is incorrect. I've been working on a GUI app that runs unchanged on
both Windows *and* Solaris, and uses the native L&F on *both* platforms
with *no* code changes.
> it's a revision dependency hell - for example, Java 1.6.whatever broke
> Azaureus; Legato NetWorker front end busts with Java 1.5.0 even though
> it says it should work and "to ignore the warning".
Azureus? Do you mean
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6550813? How is a
bug in some external Windows DLL Java's fault?
And as for Legato, both our internal bug database and Gogle draw a
blank, do you have any more details?
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Alan Burlison
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