There's no "running at..." distinction between the two. Both Java and JavaScript can run either on the server or on the client.

JavaScript is code in an HTML document(usually) that is not compiled.

Java, which is syntactically similar, is a strongly-typed OO language which is compiled and executes using the Java Virtual Machine (otherwise known as a runtime).

Java originated at Sun Microsystems. JavaScript originated as "LiveWire" at Netscape.

Learning either language certainly wouldn't *hurt*. ;-) The real learning curve in Java, though, is the API which isn't a factor in JavaScript.

Dan


>>maybe this could help: http://www.desarrolloweb.com/articulos/492.php?manual=20
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>Thank you for a great reference, Plinio.
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>>>I believe that Javascript runs in the client and Java runs in the server and that they are not really the same thing. Is that correct?
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>>>If I am interested in learning Javascript, would taking a course on Java be useful?
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>At this time I am not particularly interested in learning Java, because I figure that at the server I can use VFP with Web Connection, or perhaps ASP.NET, and I have my hands full anyway, or should I say my bandwidth full ~:)
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>However, I *am* interested in learning Javascript in order to do something richer at the browser... but someone is offering a Java course here in January. So the question is, do you think that course will be useful for my purposes?
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>TIA. Happy New Year.
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>Alex