C++ and Java

[Bent C Dalager]

Don't fit, the TMS-1000 has only 1Kbyte of ROM, and 32 byte RAM.

Assuming that C++ has managed to deliver on "you don't pay for what
you don't use," I don't see why you shouldn't be able to use it in
this case. Granted, the program might not do much more than define the
state table and a small FSM but it should still be more managable and
maintainable than if it were in assembly.

But I suspect I am drifting off topic

Cheers
Bent D

 

[Bent C Dalager]

Care to name some?

The Encyclopaedia Britannica 2004 suite is written in Java. This is
the sort of software any random household may end up using for some
reason or other.

Cheers
Bent D

 

[John Carson]

The Encyclopaedia Britannica 2004 suite is written in Java. This is
the sort of software any random household may end up using for some
reason or other.

No great surprise there. I have the 2000 edition and it functions rather
like a web server, only not as well (you need to have Internet Explorer
installed to use it). The box declares that the program was "Made with
Macromedia".

 

[alex goldman]

The Encyclopaedia Britannica 2004 suite is written in Java. This is
the sort of software any random household may end up using for some
reason or other.

Does it work on any platform with a JVM then?

 

[Alan Krueger]

The original statement referred to "commercial software packages" which
I take to mean something that you can buy off the shelf. I understand
that the most popular language for in-house development is Visual Basic.

There's a significant amount of software that doesn't fall into either
of these buckets. There's a spectrum of solutions between "off the
shelf" and "custom"; some products are partially-to-mostly OTS but need
custom code to integrate them at a customer site.

 

[Bent C Dalager]

Does it work on any platform with a JVM then?

I haven't tried it on anything but Windows so I wouldn't know.

Bent.

 

[Scott Ellsworth]

Java is also pretty keen when you want a UI on a cross platform app, and
cannot justify distinct development branches. Dundjinni does this, so
they can produce a cross platform RPG mapping tool.

Matlab is apparently moving in this direction for their front end, as
X11 has performance implications that they are not entirely happy with,
and is not that well received on some platforms. In their case, they
would love one essential front end body of code that works on Linux,
Mac, and Windows platforms.

Scott

 

[steve]

StarOffice may use Java for some things but I think it's primarily C++.

Obviously there's all the Java commercial development tools like IntelliJ
and JBuilder. Surprisingly, some versions of C++ Builder are also written
in Java (I know the earlier versions were native but the Mobile Edition I
have installed here is Java at least - I don't know if that's the case for
the latest full edition). Most of Oracle's admin tools were Java too last
time I used Oracle.

Other commercial Java desktop apps include Poseidon UML and SmartCVS.

Moving away from the desktop, there's lost of commercial mobile software
written for J2ME (mainly games).

That said, most commercial Java development is server side. Where Swing
is used commercially it tends, in my experience, to be in more bespoke
development rather than off-the-shelf software.


Dan.

a lot of oracle products are written in java ( not including the database)

Jdeveloper
formsbuilder
Calanderclient.

also if you look round source forge, the "big dirty" is being done on a lot
of java apps.
they used to be "free", but they are converting to commercial apps.

Jasperreports

and i would suspect Ireports some time in the future, as the author is NOT
including code from outside sources in his project