Re: C# versus Java for Interactive Images

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:54:13 -0400
Message-ID:
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Arne VajhQj wrote:

Logician wrote:

On Mar 9, 3:19 pm, Arne VajhQj <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Logician wrote:

On Mar 9, 12:48 pm, Andrew Thompson <andrewtho...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mar 9, 10:16 pm, Logician <sa...@logicians.com> wrote:

I am trying to write an interactive image which presents search
results in a tree structure. I see at many sites Java is used for
interactivion with images.

Do you mean as in 'Java applets embedded
in a web page?'.

I mean either an applet or a servlet, but via the WWW.

Servlets are server side - applets are client side - for all
practical purposes they can not replace each other.


This is a fine distinction (applet and servlet). My question is only -
Do so many people use Java for interactive images because it has
features not available in C#?


My impression is that Flash would be most used for this with Java
applets at a second place.

And C# is not an option because .NET is not installed on all systems
and not available at all for some systems.


Java is at least as rich as C# for server-side implementations of such
functionality. JSP are like .aspx, sort of. Java server-side also integrates
well with scripting languages like Javascript. Libraries based on AJAX, JSF
(Java Server Faces) and other frameworks provide a rich set of graphical and
quasi-graphical interactions, dynamically and statically. The trend is toward
greater cooperation of client-side and server-side actions to make for a rich
experience. One needn't rely on a browser having plugins for Flash, Java or
anything else beyond HTML and Javascript.

Arne's assessment seems accurate for strictly client-side graphical
interaction. Flex seems to be getting some attention also.

--
Lew

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