>WOW! That was very informative!
>
>Can you ask your JAVA person what a good package is to get started with JAVA? I'd like one that will work with ActiveX controls. I'd like to experiement with JAVA front ends calling methods on VFP COM objects.
>
>Thanx,
>Charlie

he responds:

If you aren't concerned about portability then Microsoft's J++ is your best bet. It's a very good development environment but it's not true Java but Microsoft's flavor and they're hook you into Windows specific API's every change they get. If future portability is a concern then I'd use IBM Visual Age for Java, Symantec Visual Cafe, or Sun's SDK with the ActiveX bridge. I've tried about all the Java development environements and IBM Visual Age for Java is my favorite by far.