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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (14179)	11/17/1997 10:50:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

AFCs snarl developers zdnet.com Microsoft's AFCs (Application Foundation Classes), which the company originally touted as a cross-platform counterpart to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s JFCs (Java Foundation Classes), debuted when Internet Explorer 4.0 and Software Development Kit 2.0 for Java shipped late in September. Developers have found the classes lacking in a key area: portability. Certain AFC classes will not run on Java virtual machines other than the one included in Internet Explorer 4.0. "This is of grave concern to me," said Rob McDermid, a developer at an East Coast software company who has been struggling to get AFCs to work outside of IE 4.0. "My company had been under the impression that AFCs would be cross-platform and had begun to use it in our products on that basis. We are disconcerted to find that this is not the case." Well, we know what P.T. Barnum said. When the whole point "Embrace and Demolish", fragment Java, and subvert portability, what, exactly, did Mr. McDermid expect? Cheers, Dan.