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Re: updates and so on

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Am 22.11.2013 10:01, schrieb Qu0ll:
> "Thomas Richter" wrote in message
> news:l6n693$bas$1@news2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de...
>
>> Yes. And this application of java is dead. Oracle killed it
>> successfully. Once you require from your users to "click" on an applet
>> to start it, or to click on scary security warnings, the user is gone.
>> If it does not run on mobile devices nowadays, the user is gone, too.
>>
>> Nice idea, but ridden by problem. Too late to fix, this ship sailed
>> away quite a while ago.
>
> Well at least you got one thing right - applets are most definitely
> dead. But for some reason you ignored all of the other "non-server"
> deployment methods I mentioned.
>
> The future of Java (other than the obvious server-side usages) is IoT.
> And, I also believe that JavaFX (and hence Java) can be a big player in
> mobile and tablet space when iOS and Android support is viable next
> year. It's being worked on by both Oracle and the JavaFX community and
> *will* be viable in the short term.

I don't believe it will.

> Do you still want to hang-on to your "only server" stance Thomas?

Yup. We'll talk in a year.

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Re: updates and so on Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2013-11-21 20:47 +0100
  Re: updates and so on "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2013-11-22 09:47 +1100
    Re: updates and so on Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-11-21 18:37 -0500
      Re: updates and so on "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2013-11-22 10:44 +1100
        Re: updates and so on Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-11-21 19:13 -0500
          Re: updates and so on "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2013-11-22 14:00 +1100
            Re: updates and so on Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-11-21 22:29 -0500
          Re: updates and so on Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2013-11-22 13:32 +0000
            Re: updates and so on Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-11-22 20:08 -0500
    Re: updates and so on Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2013-11-22 09:57 +0100
      Re: updates and so on "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2013-11-22 20:01 +1100
        Re: updates and so on Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2013-11-22 10:30 +0100
          Re: updates and so on Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-09 21:15 -0500
        Re: updates and so on Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2013-11-24 20:14 +0000
          Re: updates and so on Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-11-24 21:33 +0100
          Re: updates and so on "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 21:21 +1100
          Re: updates and so on Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-09 21:18 -0500

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