Java Web Start works reasonably well, and I have used it. But I sure don't see how you are "locked in" to Sun by using it. The Java libraries will be perpetuated with or without Sun. For example, IBM develops with Java, and I'm certain they don't think they are locked into Sun.
"Locked into Microsoft" implies dollars (forever) while "locked into Java" doesn't feel like as much of a prison at all. Agree? --dawn Dawn M. Wolthuis Tincat Group, Inc. www.tincat-group.com Take and give some delight today. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christophe Marchal Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 1:03 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: Re: GUI as nice as character-based Well, you have the java choice ;-) Java and javawebstart do the same thing as explain by James. Check http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/architecture.html But you'll still locked into Sun (instead of microsoft) ;-) Christophe Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote: >And will this next version of .NET run fine on Linux and Mac OS? I don't >keep current enough with MS and I know they keep suggesting they will run on >Linux and MacOS, but I'm not familiar with any projects that will actually >accomplish that. While their .NET efforts do look like they have a lot of >things going right for them, I still don't like locking into Microsoft for >everything. If I knew I could deploy the results of .NET development >efforts on other platforms, I'd be much more interested. --dawn > >Dawn M. Wolthuis >Tincat Group, Inc. >www.tincat-group.com > >Take and give some delight today. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of James Canale, Jr. >Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:31 PM >To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' >Subject: RE: GUI as nice as character-based > > > >>> So, shockwave is fine, Java >>>Web Start is fine and anything else that could be installed by users >>> >>> >going > > >>>to this web page and "clicking here" and that is maintained something >>> >>> >like > > >>>Adobe pdf readers would be fine. >>> >>> > >In case you haven't seen the next version of .NET yet, Visual Studio 2005 >has a "Click Once" feature that is exactly this. The "zero touch >deployment" or "xcopy" stuff that started with the first release of .NET was >like the first version of Windows, the start of an idea that wasn't really >too far along. The next version improves quite a bit on this beginning. >Actually, you have options to start from a web 'click', install a link to >the desktop/start menu, etc.. It automatically checks/downloads a newer >version (or runs locally if no connection to the server). I'm sure there >are still going to be some issues (dealing with unmanaged code comes to >mind) but, it should work very well with UniObjects.NET (when it gets here). > >Regards, > >Jim > > > > -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
