Java, etc?

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Hi all.

Can anyone give me a brief run-down on the differences between Java, Jscript, J++, Java Beans, Java Applets?

How are these languages/applications related to each other and how are they different from each other?

Thanks.

[cfmoxey]

Java is the object-oriented language, in the same "family" as C++ or Algol.

Jscript is a scripting language, much like VBScript, developed and used by Netscape to prompt the user, and respond appropriately. It is not a full-blown programming language.

J++ is Microsoft's attempt to bring everything under its umbrella. It includes useless extensions that make anything produced with it incompatible with real Java. The less said, and the less used J++, the better. Did I say it was part of M$'s attempt to dominate the programming world?

JavaBeans describes a Java API. It consists of little fragments of programs, component software, if you will, that can be joined together at runtime to form complete programs. The ultimate promise of JBeans is to provide a complete desktop component environment independent of any underlying OS. When you get right down to it, this is what Microsoft wanted to crush, not Netscape, but this, the real threat to their OS hegemony.

Applets are programs that run in web browsers [a stand-alone program is known in Java-talk as an application]. Related to applets are servlets, which are programs that run in a web server.


[Edited by cfmoxey on 07-14-2000 at 09:43 AM]

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cfmoxey.

That's exactly what I was looking for.