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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4642)	11/7/1996 12:26:00 PM
From: Eric Hall	of 42771

You misinterpreted my response, Paul. > By incorporating Java, NW will be a very good application server NetWare is already a good app server (ask Notes, ask Oracle, ask Cheyenne, etc.). The problem is not the platform, but is instead the perceived difficulty of developing applications for it. JAVA will not change this. JAVA will make it easy for clients (not servers) to run network-based applications that are platform independent, etc. JAVA does nothing to make NetWare a better app server. BUT, support for JAVA within the NetWare client should further NetWare's role as the best general purpose server. The native security and performance will play just as importantly in JAVA-based networks as they do in .EXE-based ones today. > However Eric Hall informs me (4602) that to read/write data over an > intranet to a db and run an application on that data is something > "no web server is going to give you today" What I said was that there are two parts to personal productivity database implementations. There is the database file, and there is the application logic (usually written with the database tools). There are lots of ways to open up the database file via a web browser; just put a CGI-db gateway on the server and you're done. HOWEVER there is not any way to run the database application code* via a web browser (except for Oracle Card apps) that I am aware of, unless you rewrite it into another language that is web-specific. Somebody smart (like Borland) might develop a Paradox-JAVA interpreter that can build JAVA-based versions of Paradox programs on the fly. But until then, if you want to access data using a web browser, you'll need to re-write the application portion. THIS IS TRUE OF ALL PLATFORMS.

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