Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Why Java Seems Doomed to Fail

Author:	Sam Yates
Posted:	5/2/2000; 2:30:19 PM
Topic:	Why Java Seems Doomed to Fail
Msg #:	16904 (In response to 16891)
Prev/Next:	16903 / 16905

Boy is the author of that article laughably uninformed.

As others have mentioned, there is definitely a JDK port for Linux. There are also Java IDEs for Linux, including one provided by Sun itself (used to be Netbeans).

As far as browser support for Java. The Netscape 6 Beta is actually the first (and only?) browser to "natively" support JDK1.2-specific applets. This is done using the OJI API that allows the browser to be independent of the JVM and vice versa. Granted, this is not yet production-ready technology, Mr Lyda obviously didn't make much of a research effort for his article.

Flame bait indeed.

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