You can also write windows-specific java, which will do things like make
Win32 API calls. I honestly don't know *why* you would do this, but you
can, and people do - this is a possibility.
Did they just tell you it wouldn't be supported, or have you tried it?
likely, it will work - but they won't know if it works..
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> "Brandon W. Beasley" wrote:
> > >
> > Question: I THOT JAVA WAS SPOSE TO BE PLATFORM
> > INDEPENDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AM I MISSING
> > SOMETHING?
> >
>
> Apple has their MRJ Java VM to run Java apps. I believe the latest is
> 2.1.2 which does not yet support Java2 (1.2.x) AFAIK. This could be why
> the Mac products won't work. But the browser should have it's own VM and
> I would suspect that Netscape (being owned by AOL, partnered with Sun)
> would have a VM which supports Java2. <shrug>
>
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