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To: gdichaz who wrote (5245)	3/13/1998 4:39:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

Mike, the biggest problems with Java right now are a lack of standardization and a high level of effort needed to create an ugly, ho-hum user interface. I'm not sure that I see the standardization issue improving in the near future, with the factions continuing to war. All IBM is going to accomplish with their work on the engine is to add yet another variable. I see HTML (with further refinements) handling the user interface in the future, with both server-side and client-side scripting. Whether the client-side scripting is JavaScript or is Java using JavaBeans connected to HTML form elements remains to be seen. Again, the most common approach for Intranet applications right now is NOT Java, but HTML with server-side scripting using ASP, Cold Fusion, Net Objects, etc., and Javascript scripting on the client side. What is missing right now with this approach is direct client-server connectivity with a finer granularity than full HTML pages, which results in a lot of redundant network traffic.