RE: Java portability (was "Client Access" for Linux)

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: Buck Calabro [mailto:buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:10 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Java portability (was "Client Access" for Linux)
> I can't run a V4R5 RPG program on V2R1
> I can't run a Win 95 program on Win 3.1
> I can't look at V6 Quick Time clips with a V4 Quick Time plug-in
> I need the latest Macromedia plug-in to see the latest Flash graphics
> 
> Why should I expect to run a Java 2 applet on a Java 1 JVM 
> when nothing else
> in the computer world works that way? 

Exactly.  But the way Java is sold to "no techies" they think it solves
these problems.  The fine print is left out.

 I thought that 
> "portability" meant
> that any Java 2 binaries would run on any Java 2 JVM, no matter what
> hardware platform.  I'm comparing this to C's portability, where the
> binaries are not compatible, but the source code generally is.  I'm
> apparently missing something about the meaning of "portable." 
>   Won't be the
> first time I missed something apparently obvious!
> 
> Buck Calabro
> Aptis; Albany, NY
> "Nothing is so firmly believed as
>  that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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