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 Miscellaneous I

 Q: What is the difference between Java and Microsoft Visual J++? Is there any

specific difference? Please explain me I am novice to this field

Part1

Answer: VJ++ was designed as a "spoiler" product    Microsoft created some

deliberate subtle incompatibilities so that when people wrote VJ++ code it would only

run on Windows. This is not my opinion. This came out in evidence in Microsofts trial

for anti competitive behavior.

In email they said things like they were going to "pollute" Java, and "piss on" the

Swing libraries.

Some of the incompatibilities were in removing some standard fields from the system

libraries. Others were adding some fields. They also added some differences to the

language itself, in the way event

handlers were registered.

When Sun found out about Microsoft s attempt at sabotage, they cut off all code

deliveries to Microsoft, and sued Microsoft. That lawsuit just ended with the payment

of $20M by Microsoft to Sun.

So Microsoft VJ++ is several releases out of date, and does not have many of the

most important libraries, such as RMI and beans.

Bottom line: even though it has a nice GUI IDE, if you want to program in Java, you

are better off avoiding VJ++, and using any of the free IDEs mentioned in the Java

FAQ.

by Peter van der Linden 

http://www.afu.com

P.S by John: please read second part of this tip tomorrow and you will see you can

use it with JDK1.3!

 Q: What is the difference between Java and Microsoft Visual J++? Is there any

specific difference? Please explain me I am novice to this field Part2

Answer 2: Microsoft Visual J++ is a Java IDE for editing, compiling, and debugging

Java source code. It also provides GUI editing tools that generate code for you you.

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