Re: updates and so on
On 11/21/2013 5:47 PM, Qu0ll wrote:
"Thomas Richter" wrote in message
news:l6lnvr$v5g$1@news2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de...
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Nowadays, java programs are server-side, and not client side as
envisioned, and
thus the "dynamical update mechanism" is - as a tool for software
deployment - not really needed.
WTF? Have you not heard of Swing, Applets, Java Web Start, SWT, AWT or
JavaFX? Have you not heard of embedded Java or The Internet of Things?
Java is on far more platforms and devices than ever and Oracle is very
deliberately pushing Java to be the "technology of choice" for embedded
platforms and the IoT. Many of these platforms require GUIs and of
course need to be updated.
The notion that "java (sic) programs are server-side" is utter nonsense.
Java is not only server side.
But if we look at the amount of Java code being written and the
number of people employed to write the code, then Java EE aka
"server side" is certainly by far the biggest share. Android, desktop
apps, applets, embedded etc. being far behind.
Arne