RTev,
In response,
I apologize if I confused the issue. Java is not the same as the JavaScript you find on web pages.
JavaScript, originally called LiveScript, was developed by Netscape.
Netscape offered JavaScript as a much simpler way of bringing interactivity to a web page. They even went so far as to say that JavaScript was developed for non-programmers, which is arguable.
While the Java platform from Sun, is based of idea that the same software should run on many different kinds of computers, or would be "cross platform compatible". So the same application would run on a PC, a Mac, a UNIX computer, or even PDA's
Java in it's pure form, is essentially, a "secure" language. By design it could not perform functions like writing to the hard disk, or accessing parts of memory. Microsoft wanted to add these features, to enhance Java's capabilities within the Windows OS. These features would not have been cross platform compatible. Any Java program built using Microsofts version, sometimes called MSJava, may not run in UNIX. This would cause developers to maintain many builds of the same program.
Sun asked Microsoft to conform, Bill said, hell no, and you know the rest of the story.
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