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To: Punko who wrote (679)	7/26/1998 12:02:00 PM
From: TTOSBT	Respond to of 5102

Punko, Re: "An example of a real-world java app that's catching on big: " Thanks you for that demo link very impressive! TTOSBT

To: Punko who wrote (679)	7/26/1998 3:12:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 5102

Java Usage Punko, comparing Java Beans to ActiveX or Java to BASIC is like comparing fine wine to raw sewage. Java performance is the only outstanding negative and that problem is evaporating. Moreover, there are several important facilities within the Java environment which will never come free. Java Beans are more powerful, easier to build and maintain, an order of magnitude easier to extend and far easier to use than anything else out there. They are that was because they were designed from the ground up on a solid foundation using the knowledge of hindsight gained over previous decades. That is why the market for Java Beans is growing exponentially. Java is taking off like a rocket in the instrumentation test industry and these people don't buy hype, period. Sony, HP, Motorola and thousands of other companies are creating products around Java and Java Beans. This is simply an issue of economics for them. They aren't going to shoehorn raw sewage into their systems when a vastly superior alternative is available. We need only look at Microsoft's response to Java to gain some insight into how large a threat this is to their monopoly.

To: Punko who wrote (679)	7/27/1998 12:14:00 AM
From: PDG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

Interesting, but are you aware of what is happening over at Hewlett Packard?? They have the same technology but better... A company they are working with is Warp 10 Technologies and if you go to the HP.com page...there is a nice demo... the one with the kids standing around a globe and you can zoom in and see the countries, and then the states...you have to see it. I am keeping my fingers crossed for Warp 10 (WARPF)... their stock is sitting around $2.00

To: Punko who wrote (679)	7/28/1998 2:01:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 5102

livepicture.com Thanks. I like it too (PhotoVista), and have been using the basic product for stitching the panoramas for a few months now. I have a couple of them on my web site. The Java applet and the plugin were both crap until recently - I was not able to get the thing working a couple of months ago, and had to settle for a wide scrolling via the browser, though the stitching worked, so I didn't give up on them entirely, fortunately. They are moving fast now, and the new applet is great - and requires no server side java (that I was aware of, anyway.) Also they keep upating their lense types and so on. I put the new web pages up with full 360 in about an hour or two. The big flaw of the product is that it just doesn't do too much. That is also the products greatest blessing. Simplicity. No 3d extrapolations and so on like quicktime. No high tech here, any graphics programmer worth his/her salt could do this, (and many of us did, experimentally) but fortunately for these folks, everybody else (including me) wanted to bite off more than they could chew. These folks chose to productize one of the simple central ideas of this kind of technology, and go with that. $49.95 at Fry's. Cool, huh?