[thelist] No JVM in XP means what?

[stout]

The JVM does not affect JSP/servlets.
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Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:27 pm
Subject: Re: [thelist] No JVM in XP means what?


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> > Does no JVM or Java in the new Windows XP have any bearing on a
designers
> > implementation of JavaScript or a developers use of Java Server Pages?
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> Java Applets will not run in Native IE6
> you will have to download the JVM for your applet
> which is a huge download on a modem
> and do a Java detect if such a thing is possible
> big ass button saying
> "click here for Java and go to bed, we will see you for breakfast!"
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> personally I would not spend a lot of time programming in Java,
> (accessibility is the big issue, but that is me) despite the fact that the
> promise of build once run anywhere has been largely proven.
> I see it's elimination as a poke in the eye of Sun, and a embrace, extend
> and extinguish strategy by MS.
> It is not a Microsoft Product and it is not a "feature customers are
> clamoring for" like "clippy"
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> If you want to play applets you will need to play.NET and learn C# and
start
> the 'Only Viewed With' game over again.
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> I would not plan on rolling out anything that will depend on MS technology
> real soon. There are a number of actions pending regarding the anti-trust
> lawsuit, the privacy and security issues surrounding Passport, .Net, and
> other monopoly practices that will push the release of XP back till at
least
> next year.
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> Regardless of all of the bleating about XP saving the computer industry,
> ennobling mankind, eliminating world hunger and the eventual sainthood of
> Jim Alchin.
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> Oh yeah the hardware requirements. you will need a lot of it.
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> drivers, software, compatibilty.. just off the top of my head.
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> I owe a tip.
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