Darren New wrote:

> Even way back in Java 1.0 stuff, it was fabulously complex to open a 
> socket, like anyone's going to try to write software that runs on both 
> SNA and IP.

I thought the whole point of IP is that it's one protocol to run over 
the top of every possible transport?

What *I* love about Java so much is the way especially the AWT has 
apparently multiple methods which seem to do the same thing, but don't. 
For example, an applet has the start() and init() methods. But they're 
different. But nobody really knows why.

The API seems to abound with huge classes that have complex interfaces 
that aren't really documented very much. You're just supposed to *guess* 
what all those methods do and what they're for.

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