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