Yan Hu wrote:
But java is perhaps not suitable for fat client - type apps while it is a great
language for the server side.
How is it "not suitable" for fat clients? _Especially_ fat clients that
might reuse a _substantial_ part library code of the server side or
interface directly with a shared DB? I think it makes _perfect_ sense to
not rewrite existing code in a different language.
As I always say that the market decides what stays and what not.
Which has absolutely zero to do with how "suitable" any given language
is for any given task. Being a Lisp and Ruby developer at heart I spend
a fair amount of time chuckling about how much work it is for me to
accomplish _anything_ in any other language.
Let's take a look at the job market say dice. How many are there
for Swing develpoers and how many are for J2EE?
Yeah, well, try finding a freakin' Lisp job.
How many huge apps are written in Java Swing and how many are in C++,C or even VB?
As somebody else mentioned there are a lot of Swing apps that John Q.
Public will never see, I'm thinking specifically of pretty intense apps
in the financial and insurance industries.
If Swing were so great why do so many companies even prefer a lesser language such as VB to Swing for fat clients?
Stupid^H^H^H^H^H^HInadequate programmers, I imagine.
Dave "Remember when faking Control-Hs was funny?" Newton
(Yeah, okay, it was never funny :/
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