>> 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.

...so what you're saying is, Java ended up being big server-side rather 
than client-side?

Oh, the irony of designing a language that works anywhere, and then only 
running it in one place. ;-)

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