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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Krishna A. Ubrani who wrote (5463)	11/11/1997 10:27:00 PM
From: Nolan Toone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Well, here is my $.02 worth. I choose to look at it from a 1.0 -> 1.1 -> 1.2 perspective: > 1. need to test on multiple platforms 1.0 - Yes. It had problems with the AWT because it was put in quite late and didn't get the testing done as much as really needed. 1.1 - A little bit. I haven't heard of anything glaring but just a few minor ones. 1.2 - It's not out but I think it will not have the problems. They've come up with a way to REALLY solve the problems. NOTE: Most of this is from 1. The AWT because the first release tried to use the components of the underlying system. 2. JVM differences which is being fixed with conformance tests on the JVM. > 2. incompatibilities between JDK 1.02 and JDK 1.1, different virtual > machines, different tool kits. This was the cause of #1 and is fixed with the same solutions. > 3. lack of open standards Sun is working on the ISO standard as we speak and it may be a non-issue by the time you read this. > 4. poor performance 1.0 - First release. Little optimization and bugs. 1.1 - Optimizations were done, bugs were fixed and JIT's are available. 1.2 - New technology is being added to REALLY speed things along. > 5. "It costs more to write Java applications" [according to one developer] This one doesn't even deserve a comment based on the information I've heard from a couple of hundred developers. (I guess 1:200 is an interesting ratio :->) This doesn't say Java is perfect but it's headed in the right direction and FAST. (Much faster than other languages / platforms. Lets see which would you rather use? Java 1.2 or Windows 3.1. What was Windows 1.2 like???) Nolan Toone