>One of the new things that Oracle has produced recently is the ability
>to:
>
>1) generate an Oracle Form using their standard tools;
>2) press a button;
>3) have that form now completely re-written in Java!

And your saying?...

>
>"Use technology because it's appropriate -- except in the case of 'Java'
> then just use it 'cause it's cool!" - Paul Russell

This quote is so appropriate. Java = hype=cool. Java = reinvention of the wheel. There is one big reason (multi platform = hype, also) why Java became so popular: Netscape built interpretation of it into their browser and Microsoft followed suit with IE. MS would not have built java interp. if they were not directly competing for browser market share, and digit heads had not created so many "cool" applets at the time. Applets are cool and so is push technology...and I am saying? If MS created IE before Netscape it would have C++ interp. or VB interp.(which it does now), and Java would just be a country...or slang for coffee.