Re: [PLUG] Java (was Re: Plugins and Mozilla)

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 3:54 PM -0500 1/30/01, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> But I expect Apple will drop the marketing ball as usual.

	Of course they will - that's pretty much a given ;).


>  >	Java serves today as a great platform for server-based
> >  applications (ie. Servlets), because all of it's advantages can be
> >  put into play, while ignore the "run once, debug everywhere" problems
> >  that plagued it for client side use.
>
> Um, sure, but why not write those servelets in a more efficient
> language?

	Because those efficient language don't include the necessary 
higher level concepts and pre-existing library functions that Java 
does.  Java's integrated support of networking protocols, 
multithreading, file systems and XML/XSL (to name a few) make 
delivery of high performance, server optimized products MUCH quicker 
and more robust.


> There is *no* way to compile Java applications to a strictly local
> machine language.

	That's true, and that's fine!  I would say that for most 
things that servlets are doing (networking, file systems, XML 
parsing, etc.) the overhead is NOT in the code execution but all the 
other stuff it is doing.


> (And this doesn't fix the idiocy in the class library, not that much
> could. ;^>)
	What do you have against the class library?  I would argue 
that it is one things that brings great benefit to Java.


Leonard
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