On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:21:14PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Using Java as a general purpose programming language is a whole >> different ball game, it's something I'm involved in where I work but >> it has nothing whatever to do with browsers or the web. > > And you have no interest in remote execution without being locked into > specific hardware or operating systems? > Although Java is much more platform independent than many other languages it still isn't platform independent enough for this to really work. It works in a browser environment because that is a much more limited environment than a complete OS and there Java *can* be pretty well platform independent. -- Chris Green
