Originally posted by xoc:
I can't believe people are still using Java.
I installed the Sun Java runtime last week to use a design app called Denim, and all I got was a non working computer.
What exactly do you guys develop that [b]requires Java ?
So far (in my experience with several different clients here in Denver), I have only seen single platform applications developed with it, that could have been done much quicker and better with a RAD like VB.[/b]
Its kind of hard to develop with VB when you have to deal with AS400, Suns, PCs and other piles of things 8)
If to talk seriously - then there are lots of things that we used it for over years, Ian. Starting from x-platform graphics for oil & gas stuff and getting all the way to distributed computing thingies for travel industry, components managements for telecoms and factories.
Java got its nice niche and it seems to sit there 8) I am not saying its only language in the world, since i used to about 10 others (including such things as bleeding Cobol and Fortan IV that i am keep trying to forget, but they keep coming back when i am dealing wil old proprietary things integration 8(), but its just what our company using, learned hard way that its easier to maintain and move around.
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