Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > > Certainly a silly question for this list: Do you think Java is currently > a viable platform for cross-platform, shrink-wrap GUI applications ? > I.e. if you had a proprietary consumer application for Windows and MacOS, > and you were looking for a strategy that also worked for Linux, would > you consider re-implementing the application in Java, or would you stick > with conventional tools like a cross-platform toolkit (like wxWindows or Qt), > a Wine/Winelib solution, or a single toolkit for each platform. > > Apart from our (Debian's) license problems with Java, I have the impression > that the big other distributions don't really support a Java Runtime > Environment, cf. the way they support GNOME or KDE applications. > > If somebody point me to discussions of the state of art of Java on Linux, > I'd be really glad! > > Gregor
I think Java Web Start (http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/) makes Java a very powerful cross-platform deployment strategy. I have it working on my Debian box at this moment. cc
