"Thomas Richter" wrote in message
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Yes. And this application of java is dead. Oracle killed it
successfully. Once you require from your users to "click" on an applet
to start it, or to click on scary security warnings, the user is gone.
If it does not run on mobile devices nowadays, the user is gone, too.
Nice idea, but ridden by problem. Too late to fix, this ship sailed
away quite a while ago.
Well at least you got one thing right - applets are most definitely
dead. But for some reason you ignored all of the other "non-server"
deployment methods I mentioned.
The future of Java (other than the obvious server-side usages) is IoT.
And, I also believe that JavaFX (and hence Java) can be a big player in
mobile and tablet space when iOS and Android support is viable next
year. It's being worked on by both Oracle and the JavaFX community and
*will* be viable in the short term.
Yup. We'll talk in a year.