Re: Obj-C vs Java
Re: Obj-C vs Java
- Subject: Re: Obj-C vs Java
- From: Jonathan Hendry <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:48:27 -0500
On Tuesday, July 24, 2001, at 06:53 , Scott Anguish wrote:
but there is no question that they attempted, and failed, at
the desktop.. their own purchase, and failure of conversion of the
lighthouse suite is a prime example of this (as is their devman
purchase, and others)
I don't think they ever shipped their JavaPlan CASE product, either;
I know they had an Objective-C version (ObjectPlan). It was so
pricey you'd think they'd have an incentive to ship it.
Some Lighthouse code seems to have ended up in Swing, according to
O'Reilly's Swing book (page 1, no specifics given.)
Did Sun buy Sarrus (PencilMeIn)? I recall Sarrus having put out a
Java version of it (probably not as a product...) back in 95 or 96.
It was okay, but
nothing I'd want to _use_.
Java - where desktop applications go to die?
Sun's not even trying to turn StarOffice into a Java app in the
OpenOffice project.