Hey Ken,

I agree with your position on slants and questionable info. The Java people I know don't think VFP is worth anything and the VFP people I know don't think I should be wasting my time on Java. I'm not sure why so many folks can't ride a fence like me. :)

We bought JBuilder 3.0 and I liked it. The upgrade to 3.5 has some issues though. I'm hoping that Borland puts out a patch or (in MS terms) a service pack.

Scott



>David - my comments in context below ...
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>>My comments were coming, not from a position of "Java is bad", but "the reporting was bad". :-)
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>so noted ... but I would again argue - that much of the "news" that one finds through this and other pro-MS forums is also "bad" by virtue of being equally slanted.
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>>I agree. Just be sure you're looking at as many actual FACTS as possible, and not just marketing hype.
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>absolutly - and remembering, of course, that MS is the king of marketing hype!!!
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>>That's why I earlier recommended that you talk with people who have actually implemented (and some who have attempted) cross-platform projects with Java, to find out the real story of good and bad.
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>And I have and will - but if I rely only on this forum for those reports - of course I'm only going to get the "JAVA failed - back with MS now" stories. My point is that in JAVA friendly forums - you get just as many of the opposite stories.
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>>Did you see many possibilities for cross-platform DHTML, or have you decided already that Java is the answer? How is the search going for development tools?
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>I'm glad you asked about DHTML - I looked at the sites you listed the other day. neat stuff - but what I saw was limited to mostly small animation samples - certainly nothing data intensive. I would like to explore this more, especilaly if I could be pointed to a "database front-end style" use of DHTML.
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>As far as "Java is the answer" - I just don't know. I'm about at the point where I'm going to just buy an IDE, learn it, and try to write small app so I can see first hand what it's all about - good and bad.
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>thanks,
>Ken