On 03/25/2006 10:11 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le samedi 25 mars 2006 à 03:59 +0000, Joe Desbonnet a écrit :
For full portability you have many options. Personally I would go the
Java route. With excellent free IDEs like Eclipse you can get very
productive in that environment.
Java server-side is a good idea.
On the client part it's a shockingly bad idea (and I include applets
there). Googling will find you boatloads of apps that choose java for
portability and still can not run on anything else than windows, because
just deploying the right JVM on all the systems you may target is a
major problem (and I'm not even counting the free stacks there).
I tend to disagree -- get Java from Sun and you should have no problem
unless your application is especially written to *not* run on anything
else than some particular platform. And I'm speaking from experience:
running lots of Java desktop applications on both Linux (at home) and
Windows (at work). Few examples:
- Druid (druid.sf.net),
- JMeter,
- NetBeans (all versions, starting from 3.5 up to 5.0) with a few plugins,
- Azureus,
- IntelliJ IDEA,
- few NASA applications (e.g. Mars24j),
- Eclipse (since 2.1 up to all sorts of development releases 3.2) with
*lots* of plugins (MyEclipseIDE, Subclipse, BIRT, Mylar, WebTools
Platform, QuantumDB, GEF, VisualEditor, Jigloo, EMF...)
- RawView (http://www.through-the-lens.net)
and more... Successfully with no special treatment to make it work on
either OS. And these are only some GUI applications I use/used. There's
more non-GUI software too.
If it where that easy, we'd have the latest eclipse version in Fedora
with all the major plugins instead of the current situation.
Heh, it *is* that easy -- get Sun's Java stack, install, download your
app of choice, install and run!
Regards,
Dariusz
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