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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to make my java applets more user friendly
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:32:18 +0200
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On 14.07.2014 18:36, Thomas Richter wrote:

> Java on the desktop is already dead, it died a long time ago.

My Eclipse is pretty alive and kickin'.

> There is
> usage for Java on the server. The "desktop" becomes more and more the
> browser - applets could have done it, but Oracle killed it succesfully.

Granted, a lot is going web.  But that does not mean that it works for 
everything - not even that everything which is currently done web would 
not be better off with a local UI.

Cheers

	robert