From: Adam 

Geo wrote:

> You gotta be kidding, it's not even cross JVM in some cases.
>

In some cases. In some cases it can be Appserver specific. Depends on what
you use. In phones for example, there are a range of displays & as such
I have seen mobile phone ant build scripts where you have properties &
it cycles through creating a nokia_6210.jar, a nokia_6230.jar etc.

The core functionality is portable & doesn't change but the displays
change greatly (e.g. what you can show on a 320x320 display is different to
a 320X640 etc.)

Adam



> Geo.
>
> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
> news:428de1e8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>Cross platform.
>>
>>- Bob Comer 
>>
>>"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
>
> news:428dcdeb{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>>But C++ can do all that. Managed/unmanaged. GC/non-GC, or both in the
>
> same
>
>>>app.
>>>
>>>What is the advantage of Java as a language given there's no obvious
>>>advantage to it as an environment? I suppose a more flexible 'goto'
>>>mechanism...
>>>
>>>Paul
>>>
>>>"Adam"  wrote in message
>>>news:428db7a2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>
>>>>Rubbish.
>>>>
>>>>For speed I can show you a load of independant studies where
>>>>inline/dynaminc compiling etc means that the load time
might be longer
>>>>but the execution time might actually be shorter.
>>>>
>>>>For predictability...nope. You can control the gc as you
wish & there
>
> are
>
>>>>a number of other ways you can make very predictable java systems.
>>>>
>>>>Adam
>>>
>>>
>>
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