Re: Java

[nelson@crynwr.com]

Raph Levien writes:

 >    Another concern with Java is that it acheives portability at the cost 
 > of enforcing a lowest common denominator. For example, all real Windows 
 > applications support OLE, and all real Mac applications support Apple 
 > Events. Java applets, and even applications, can't do either. To me, 
 > that makes the accomplishment of portability a bit less impressive, even 
 > if it were so.

On the other hand, you have the potential for running a second Java
applet inside a first Java applet, achieving OLE in a portable
fashion, across all operating systems.  Encryption everywhere.

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