>>You haven't forgotten, have you, that MS tried to capture the Java standard using J++ , a slightly unstandard Java, by using
>> it's OS market share ( 'embrace, extend, extinguish')?
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>Hi Jerry;
>
>So you would not recommend V J++ for someone wanting to learn Java? What would you recommend?

The best GUI RAD for Java that I have found so far is IBM's VisualAge for Jave 3.0. I have it in both Win95 and Linux and the look and feel and operate identically on both platforms. The jar files work identically on both platforms. Write once, use everywhere.
JLK