Don't confuse Javascript with Java. Java is a fully-blown programming language that can create desktop applications. Sun claims that Java's advantage is that it is cross platform, meaning you can create a single application that can run on Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac, etc. However, the reality is that there are limitations in doing that.

My experience with Java applications is that they are slow and have a terrible, almost impossible to use UI. Some will say the UI is the fault of the developer, but I have used...and continue to use...several Java applications from multiple vendors and stand by my statement.

I have friends that do Java development who say Sun has done little to innovate the language the past two to three years and that it is showing its age.

My advice, stick with VFP.


>My manager wants us to rewrite an old Fox 2.6 application using either Java or VFP8. Another programmer has written some Javascript to quiry data and move data sets across the network. We do not want the new application to be browser based.
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>I'm not very familiar with Java development. Isn't it primarily designed for browser-based applications rather than stand-alone applications? Seems to me it would take considerable more time to develop in Java and would run slower on the client machine.
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>Patrick