1. The Java learning curve is steep and long.
2. Java syntax is ugly and difficult to read in many cases
3. Java apps do *not* run cross-platform with anything near the ease of Revolution apps. Java's promise of "write once, run everywnere", long since abandoned by Sun itself, quickly became "Write once, debug everywhere."
4. Java apps are slower than equivalent Revolution apps
5. Java apps are cumbersome compared to Rev apps. (A Rev developer was telling me just yesterday that he has a Java app that creates an alias to a file. For it to run correcty cross-platform, it took 257 lines of Java code. (That's probably 10-25% of the lines it would take in C++.) In Rev? One line and it runs everywhere.)
Java will become a teaching language, as is what happened to Pascal. Otherwise, it is pig-bloat-ware. Remember the Lisa? Friends don't let friends write Java programs.
-Steve
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