>Hi Experts,
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>It seems that most of the threads I have read regarding making the shift (or perhaps as fallback) from VFP is towards .NET/C#.
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>Anybody going to "other side" by way of Java and other open source technologies?
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>Kindly treat this as an informal survey of sorts.
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>Any insights and/or thoughts are appreciated.
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>Cheers!
>
>Dennis

I am trying to learn Java, in my free time. I even taught a one-semester course, at one time; but I need to learn some more to do serious development. Mainly, learn a lot more about building a good visual interface. Nowadays that would be the Swing framework for Web applications, or (forgot the name - some other framework) for Web applications. Also, connecting to a database. And what they say, "putting everything together" - combining different aspects to create a complete application.

I am not so much interested in dotnet; not so much because Java is freeware, and dotnet is more commercially oriented; more because dotnet is oriented towards Windows, and if I do learn a new language, I want one that was developed from the start for multiple platforms.