Java's xplat support is, from all accounts and limited personal experience, a nightmare and a joke.
Not anymore.
Sure, when Marimba release Bongo we all had a good chuckle, but that was many years ago.
A more modern example is ThinkFree Office: <http://www.thinkfree.com/products/pd_office20.jsp>
Fully written in Java, it's appearances and performance seem roughly on par with Rev for many key tasks.
I managed to purge my hard drive of all Microsoft apps, but since so many people mistake Excel and Word for open standards that it's essential to be able to read those formats. ThinkFree Office does a fair job of reading and writing most Excel and Word files (those are proprietary formats, so there are limitations), and it does so fairly efficiently and provides acceptable interfaces for editing them.
Oddly enough, they have a feature similar to RevOnline called "CyberDrive", which provides space on their servers for storing and trading documents.
Of course I believe they'd cut their development costs in half if they switched to Rev, but as an example of what modern Java frameworks can deliver it's a pretty good one.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________ Rev tools and more: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
