>Sorry, here you go: http://www.vnunet.com/News/104030


News of the demise of Visual J++ is being linked to Microsoft's latest announcement of 'programming the web' using Web language XML as the lingua franca.

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Separately, Computing has been given an early preview of Visual Studio 7, which is heavily biased towards XML, formally called extensible mark-up language.

XML will allow software written to Microsoft's Com object model to interact with non-Windows objects. In essence, Microsoft is replacing the DCOM RPC messaging technology with an XML/HTTP technology that allows for remote method invocation.


It makes no sense to say that XML will replace Java but it does seem that the emphasis on XML will be of benefit to VFP folks.

Peter Robinson