>Hi Jess,
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>I've been working with the JDK 1.2 for a while and I've not noticed it being as bad as loading from the internet.

Maybe my observation is bias but the same argument, the speed is nothing as compare to VB,VFP,Delphi forms.

>And now I'm using the newer SDK 1.3 which Sun claims has sped up Swing (JFC) by 30%. I think that Sun is addressing your concern on this one.

Good one. It addresses Swing only? Why?

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>Scott
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>>>Whatever else can be said good/bad about MS or JAVA - JAVA is growing like crazy and definitely has the momentum now. IMHO - MS MUST address cross platform issues ASAP in their dev tools or they are gonna lose market share big time.
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>>PMFJI, if MS must address the cross platform issue, so as SUN must also address the sluggishness of JAVA. For now, JAVA sluggishness is not tolerable to me. Just running a single form with a single object is just like running a page in an Internet. Ohhhhh my....
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>>jb