RE: Mindshare and Java

[James Childers <JC6452@FS2HOST.CCCCD.EDU>]

> > As cool as many of the people on the Java team are, though, I am dubious
> > that Java is going to live up to the hype. 

Same here. If someone writes a secure electronic-wallet type system 
with Java, then I'll be impressed. Until then, all I've seen 
implemented is kEWL text graphics. 

> There was an official announcement at their Professional Developers Conference
> a few weeks back.  In short, full support in the browsers (and apparently MS 
> is now the keeper of the reference implementation on Win32) and also
> a full blown Java development environment code-named 'Jakarta'.

Didn't MS ditch their proprietary Java-like language? Interesting, if 
so...