TWIMC:
I don't use Java on any machine, nor MSjava. That's why I have a copy of StarOffice 5.1 that's never been installed. The web site didn't make it clear that one needed Java. Believe you me, that was a long dial-up download! I was able to find out the need for Java from your site though, so kudos. Still. . .
I would like to try OpenOffice.Org however.
Is there any chance that OpenOffice.Org will use standard W3C scripting languages in the future for Java functions?
Absolutely and utterly out of the question. But fact that you ask leads me to suspect that you don't understand what Java is or what it does. Java is not a scripting language; it is a machine- and OS-independent application programming language. Neither the fact that /one/ of the things that can be done with it is writing an application that runs in a rectangular window within a webpage (an "applet"), nor the fact that there is also a scripting language that is variously named "JavaScript" or "ECMAScript" alters this.
If the Java code contained within OOo were to be replaced, it would be replaced with C++.
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John W. Kennedy
"...when you're trying to build a house of cards, the last thing you should do is blow hard and wave your hands like a madman."
-- Rupert Goodwins
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