Re: 3rd party stuff / was Java-based forums

[Marc Logemann <spam1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Jin wrote:

> Which of these offers more free/open source third party library/products?
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>   1.. COBOL
>   2.. RPG
>   3.. C/C++
>   4.. JAVA
>   5.. .NET
>   6.. .
>  

Most software products are built with C/C++ of course, but IMO the 
library base in java is bigger. DOTNET is too new to be competitive in 
any area and RPG cant compete because it has not so much developers and 
the area of RPG usage is mainly business programming, there you dont 
have too many patterns which re-occur every day. Cobol is in the same 
situation i guess. Another fact that speaks for java in the library 
space is that you can use java nearly everywhere, so you have libs for 
creating web applications, mobile applications, GUI applications all 
this XML stuff, you really need more libs than with most other languages 
out there, with a very strict focus on the devevelopment area. Take PHP, 
a great language, but very focused to web development. You dont need 
libraries for Widgets or 3d capabilities.

Marc Logemann