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> -----Original Message----- > 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 > Visit the Midrange archives at http://www.midrange.com > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to > MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: > david@midrange.com > +--- > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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