The use of policy classes should solve a lot of design tradeoffs that I have seen. Editorial By Reg. The vicious fight between Sun and Microsoft has reached new heights. As my Trend columns have shown, Java is the most popular language to arise in this Internet age. All modern browsers support Java applets and JavaScript.
Many applications use both as their development environment.
Now Microsoft is droping all support of Java, with the implied cessation of support for JavaScript also. Java s growth threatens Microsoft s monopoly of the desktop. However, I believe it is disastrous for developers and computer users in general. I can t imaging the anger and sense of betrayal that Java developers are feeling right now. Under these circumstances, I don t see how Microsoft is going to second these developers to now work for them.