Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> I hate to say this, but Java was *designed* for embedded programming. 
> 
>   I wonder about their design choices given that it was intended originally
> for *embedded* 

I think the idea was that they were targeting two primary things:

1) Portability, so you didn't have to rewrite your EPG-download code over 
again every time you released a new cable modem in your set-top box, and

2) Reliability, because when you have 100,000 customers, a crash for 1% of 
them once a month is a fatal problem.

I would imagine stuff like codecs would still be native code. It's the stuff 
like user interfaces and interfacing to the provisioning systems you'd want 
to be portable.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
   I get "focus follows gaze"?

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