>I musta missed something. Java is used for cross-platform and browser apps. And if you use J++ 6.0 you have a lot of WFC stuff that blows that away. If you're only concerned with Win32 then Java is not the way to go anyway.

Yeah, we're doing some Java development (beautiful language) and the Microsoft "impovements" would defeat the whole purpose.

We are using it for the cross-platform capabilities and the RMI. If we wanted to stick with Win32, we would have stuck with C++ and Sockets or DCOM.

The development tools are excellent across the board (we use Inprise J Builder 2) and the JVMs are getting faster and faster. There are also a number of native compilers out there now. Of course the native compilers make you build a binary executable for each platform, but you don't have to change the code. Try that with C/C++.

Rockwell Collins and Sun have CPUs that execute Java bytecode in the microcode. Maybe Microsoft will partner with someone to release a CPU that executes Foxpro bytecode -- that will speedup those screen updates.