On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:53:23 John S. Gage wrote:
>Which JVM are you using on the Palm? The only two I know about are
>wabasoft and the KVM from Sun.
Hi John,
I am using KVM from Sun, where Java comes from :-). I am also looking at the xml
parser from kxml.org.
>I suppose that at the risk of appearing to
>be overly Socratic (ah, but can one ever be overly Socratic), I would turn
>the question around and say, "If you are developing in Java on one
>platform, why not all platforms?"
We started with Zope because it is easier to use (highter level) compared to Java.
(*Note that I not talking about Python, when I say Zope, I mean Zope.*)
Consequently, we have a functional, extensible, production system while the Java-based
projects are at least one year behind.
On platforms where Java or something else is more appropriate than Zope, we can use
Java (or Eiffel or C# or ...) to implement the OIO kernel. Since the OIO kernel is
intentionally quite small, this is a manageable process. Of course, the proof will be
in real code release :-).
>Java has so damn many tools that just
>are there for the taking that I really think one has to think long and hard
>about *not* using it.
Yes! That's another reason to not fully depend on Zope. It could turn out that adding
features to OIO on Java is easier than doing the same for OIO on Zope.
>JavaHelp, Java Encryption, etc. etc. And then
>there's Open(E)Med. A complete Java implementation of the CORBAmed standard.
Good idea. There is no reason for OIO to re-implement CORBAmed. So far, we have not
encountered an application that requires CORBAmed. In addition, I am not sure how best
to incorporate code from OpenEMed into OIO, yet. Do you have any suggestions?
Andrew
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
www.TxOutcome.Org
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
University of California, Los Angeles
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