on mon sep NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERam NUMBER eirikur hallgrimsson wrote my opinion is biased because of the disgraceful state of non windoze browser java implementations horrors applets are kinda sucky the cool kids are using java to write server applications not browser craplets the giggle inducing irony of the whole java thing is how sun s strategy backfired they produced a platform that was supposed to dwell on the client side where it would commoditize those clients instead it turns out to be the perfect language to write server applications in and it has successfully commoditized servers ooops njl 