Orchid XP v8 escreveu:
> Question: How many Java programs have you seen that are more than 
> Tic-Tac-Toe demo programs? ;-)
> 
> (Personally, I haven't seen many - although there are a few...)

A large part of the e-commerce web is powered by java application 
servers.  The reason you only see old tic-tac-toe java "applets" is 
because that's what is left on the web after Sun's goals for desktop 
java apps got spoiled by Microsoft with their own incompatible Java runtime.

That said, desktop java apps are still used at a fairly large scale. 
Federal Postoffice agency here in Brazil uses one such app for all its 
transactions.  It has that caracteristic Swing look-and-feel.  I gather 
banks also rely on java infrastructure heavily.  You quite never deal 
with it directly, though.  Only with the familiar generated HTML.

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