I am plaing with VJ+ 6 Tech Preview and falling in love with Java and IDE from MSFT. I has great database connections using ADO, Java has better OOP than VFP, IDE is very close to VB IDE. This time VFP is much more muture that Java, but I see that Java can be used very well to writting business applications.


>JR
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>>However, once you do stuff across a WAN or need a C/S architecture,
>>ADO will smoke VFP as VFP is file/server based.
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>You're saying ADO will smoke VFP against (say) SQL Server? If that is true then it is pretty important to me and people like me.
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>Seriously, I'd value any extra knowledge you have here. I'm not trying to catch you out- of course mere "query times" have always been a fairly useless comparison without the time required to databind the user interface or otherwise use the data- but at this stage, personal insights are all we really have...
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>>Would it help to say that I have actually sat down with members
>>of the team??
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>I'm not denying what you say, it just seems that a significant problem that has persisted for almost 3 years and will now likely persist for another 18 months, is not being fixed fast enough. I know if I did that to my clients, they'd say I wasn't listening. <s>
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>>Other UI's IMO, like IE/DHTML and VB show a lot of promise.
>>These are tools that can be used today -
>>without us having to wait for things to get implemented in VFP.
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>You got it. W3C-compliant browsers are looking good and some excellent tools, like Hotfusion, allow you to generale html and dhtml that avoids the diverging browser standards as well.
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>>Have you used RDS? Working with images is nice, but what about data???
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>OK, what sort of HTTP data are you talking about here?
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>>Yes, you encouraged folks to look at VJ and a Supercede
>Yes I did. That doesn't mean I'm advising Java over VB though. I just think we all need to be looking at the products out there at the moment. IMHO some VFP people will be very attracted by Java- I certainly am and it has made me a lot of money.
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>Regards
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>JR