The Once and Future Development Standard
Over the past few months, I've grown to appreciate the elegance of both Java's architecture and implementation--an appreciation born from my experiences with both Java and Visual Basic.Corporate development managers face a development-tool choice every four years or so. At this point in the cycle, the most likely candidates are Java and VB. Looking back at previous cycles, we saw business developers switch their technology from COBOL, for example, to Clipper to PowerBuilder to VB. Each tool offered value given the technical and business challenges at the time. But at the end of the process only the tool had changed; the programmers remained stagnant, with the same old approaches simply translated into a new language. CMP Network Computing
ReadReducing Your Clients' Application Intake
The reader feedback to my May 15 column regarding the impact of fat clients on scalability was, "Are fat clients all that bad?" The rest of the mail I received questioned the alternatives to loading all of the applications on the client. CMP Network Computing
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