Steven

>>Java doesn't seem as difficult as the rap it receives. <<

I agree it is pretty easy to learn for a VFP'er... but earlier on there were *heaps* of troubles. Of note, one release of IE3. threw a GPF if you used Java. The app was paralysed and we carried the rap until MS (finally) posted the fix. The fix had to be downloaded from the MS site by each affected machine. At that time my hospital client did not permit access to the outside internet. We had fun.

Plus, early Java tools were flaky, slow. Plus Java Developers tended to be young and creative, without any of the discipline and bureaucracy that wizzened old heads like us know has to be part of every life, no matter how cool a life it is.

and it was quite fun that early Java had no facility to print from the Browser. We enjoyed that.

I believe it is a lot better now, but features you'd want are still not supported widely in Browsers...

Regards

JR

"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1