Re^2: Company considers recoding Java app in Perl

[Jenda]

What FUD do you mean? Whenever I happen to stumble on a page with a Java applet while browsing the Net my computer basically just stops responding for several seconds. Whenever I start the stupid IP Phone application we have here it stops responding for 15-30 seconds. Not just that it takes 15 seconds for the app to appear, nothing else gets to do anything until Java loads and initializes and does other things I don't want to know about. Yep, FUD. Pull the other one.

[perrin]

We are not talking about Java applets here. This is about sites with a backend coded in Java and no Java on the frontend. That is the primary market for Java and has been for years. Applets were a short-lived fad.

[Tanktalus]

Damn, I wish you could convince Rational of that. ClearQuestWeb uses Java applets coming out the wazoo, and I've seen their new version - which has become one big Java applet.

I'm not actually trying to disagree with you here: I really do honestly wish someone would give Rational a cluestick! (Although the Java applet version is more likely to work on my Linux/Firefox system than the current ASP-based application which only really likes IE6.)