At my workplace, we happily develop (and sometimes just generate) web applications using the UIX framework. These are a couple of Java libs which make your life quite easy. Lots of things here which make a good natively compiled user interface are implemented in cross-browser HTML/javascript.
A friend of mine works for a small company in the business of selling a Java-driven backoffice which pushes stock-information. They use the BugZilla system and are happy about it.
VIRTUAL MACHINE - A self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer. For example, Java applets run in a Java virtual machine (VM) that has no access to the host operating system. This design has two advantages:
System Independence: A Java application will run the same in any Java VM, regardless of the hardware and software underlying the system.
Security: Because the VM has no contact with the operating system, there is little possibility of a Java program damaging other files or applications.
The second advantage, however, has a downside. Because programs running in a VM are separate from the operating system, they cannot take advantage of special operating system features.
If they're giving free internet accounts to people for installing the software, it'll be minutes before someone reverse-engineers the protocol which the client uses. Then, they'll make a daemon running on Linux which emulates the clicking/moving/typing and voila, free internet.
Everyone forgets here that it's not you versus them. The company is made up of people.
I don't want to work at justa tech company where the boss thinks that I am not an equal part of the company. I work at a small tech company where I personally know the owners. And I like it that way; I want to hear their stories about how it all got started, how the meeting with customer X was, etc. I want to know their side of the story.
But I am not just a friend. I am a highly skilled worker and I'll quit when I'm not happy. Just as they would get rid of me when they're not happy with me.
A union would just be in the way. I want a good relationship with my company. I don't have a union in my marriage either, right?
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I just read the question, your post and the previous post. Not limited by any knowledge I'd say you both are crazy. :)
If the one asking the question would set up a wiki-web and slowly added q&a's, then what would be non-trivial about this? The cataloguing involved?
Bart
At my workplace, we happily develop (and sometimes just generate) web applications using the UIX framework. These are a couple of Java libs which make your life quite easy. Lots of things here which make a good natively compiled user interface are implemented in cross-browser HTML/javascript.
See also Oracle JDeveloper on OTN.
Besides, you can talk all you want. But there's no way you can stop the customer asking for web applications.
For your interest:
A friend of mine works for a small company in the business of selling a Java-driven backoffice which pushes stock-information. They use the BugZilla system and are happy about it.
VIRTUAL MACHINE - A self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer. For example, Java applets run in a Java virtual machine (VM) that has no access to the host operating system. This design has two advantages:
The second advantage, however, has a downside. Because programs running in a VM are separate from the operating system, they cannot take advantage of special operating system features.
You know how that company is like. No, it isn't possible, IMHO.
If they're giving free internet accounts to people for installing the software, it'll be minutes before someone reverse-engineers the protocol which the client uses. Then, they'll make a daemon running on Linux which emulates the clicking/moving/typing and voila, free internet.
I wonder how the guys feel who are working at AOL doing development.
After the news on VA Linux and RedHat, it seems to me that a business model built on Open Source software seems more and more difficult.
I don't want to work at justa tech company where the boss thinks that I am not an equal part of the company. I work at a small tech company where I personally know the owners. And I like it that way; I want to hear their stories about how it all got started, how the meeting with customer X was, etc. I want to know their side of the story.
But I am not just a friend. I am a highly skilled worker and I'll quit when I'm not happy. Just as they would get rid of me when they're not happy with me.
A union would just be in the way. I want a good relationship with my company. I don't have a union in my marriage either, right?