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Re: GTK+-based AWT (was Re: On java programs & main/contrib)



On Jun 28, Alex Yukhimets decided to present us with:
> > 
> > Note that microsoft's IE does not use the classes from sun, they
> > wrote their own version. And programs compiled against sun's run
> > in microsoft's, and even vice-versa.
> 
> Well, the truth is that it is not so. If someone tried to write something a
> little bit more elaborate than "Scribble Applet" in Java, s/he would know that
> the difference in the way program run on different platforms is drastic. 
> You have to spend some considerable effort to make your JAVA code "portable" 
> even to defferent _JDK_ implementations, not to mention alternative virtual
> machine and, more important, classes implementations. 

I hope this is not true. If it is, what good is Java after all?
Nah. ICQJava runs everywhere, and it's very far from simple.

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