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Re: New in Java 7: JLayer

From	"Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: New in Java 7: JLayer
Date	2011-05-21 11:26 +1000
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"Nasser M. Abbasi"  wrote in message news:ir4om1$qeh$1@speranza.aioe.org...

<snip>

> What I do not understand is how would doing the whole GUI in
> Javascript, running inside the browser, would be any better or
> different than say using Java applets, which is also a GUIcode
> running inside the browser.

<snip>

I am one of applets' greatest advocates so I entirely agree with you. 
Applets provide a much more powerful programming environment than JavaScript 
ever will but have the one drawback of requiring the user to have a JRE 
installed on their machine.  Some see this as a significant problem and it 
does prevent them from running on platforms where Java will never be 
available such as iOS.  However, it's very easy to install a JRE on the fly 
(except on said platforms) and support for applets will be much better when 
the new Plugin3 architecture is released later this year.  Start-up times 
will be significantly faster and the new version of JavaFX (2.0) is looking 
impressive which will just be a Java API.

I love applets and believe they are the most underutilised deployment 
platform for Java in the history of the language.

And loving it,

-Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct)
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      Re: New in Java 7: JLayer "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-05-21 11:26 +1000
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            Re: New in Java 7: JLayer Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-22 07:44 -0400
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