Re: Java and NC

Posted in 1997

Tom Beuke — 17 Mar 1997 08:46:00 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <332c5032.19513368@gate.idg.no>, Nils.Myklebust@idg.no (Nils Myklebust) wrote: > One of the best decisions anyone can do in the Java world. The AFC > class library is probably yet more dangerous. Granted you can (still) > develop pure Java with these tools, but there is a great risk of > easily beeing bound to MS Windows only. The nice think here is that > other dev.tools are better and offer more functionality than the MS > tools. If you absolutely want you can even develop MS Windows spesific > programs with them (i.e. utilizing ActiveX and related techonologies) > but in a much more controlled way. You can also rest assured 100% pure > Java will remain the main focus. What would you suggest to use, then ? We'd like to develop an application in JAVA that can be deployed on any platform and use any (usable) database, i.e Informix, Oracle, MS-SQL, Sybase and others. -- t_beuke@tob.prima.ruhr.de http://www.prima.ruhr.de