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anycar anylane anywhere drivers

Long long ago, so long ago that no body could say how long ago, thousands of people from China, Rome, France and India climbed up a mountain somewhere near Cripple Creek, Colorado and built houses to live in and lived there. The mountain town elected a Mayor who did everything to make life comfortable for the citizens except build a roadway to the rest of the world.

They were an enterprising lot. They were intelligent. They were hardworking. They found a way to generate electricity, invented and built their own automobiles and lived in prosperous isolation to the rest of the world, preserving their original customs in every way possible.

The Mayor established a China District for those from China who climbed up the mountains. The Chinese built roads and created a rule that "The right side of the road is for men, the left side for women and the center for carriages."

And for the Romans the Mayor built a Roman District where there were roads where the Romans drove to the left. The Romans in the mountain town, though they drove to the left, didn't built roads like those in England, for they left the left for the pilgrims to walk down. They drove their cars somewhere between midway and the left.

The Mayor built a French District for those who came from France and the French built roads to drive their cars to the right. But the traffic police man on the street wanted the French to drive seated on the bonnet on the left side of the car and drive to their right, so the Frenchmen became accustomed to driving without a driver's seat.

The Mayor built an India District for those from Calcutta and they built laneless roads. They drove to the left or right as it pleased them, overtook or crossed each other on the left or right as it occurred to them and there was an invisible order behind all the chaos that kept the cars moving.

Many many years, so many years later, the President of America discovered that there existed an undiscovered mountain town and built a roadway to the mountain town. He announced his discovery and the mountain town became an overnight tourist attraction.

People from around the world drove along the road to the mountain town, some drove to the left and others drove to the right, along the road to the mountain town. Their cars stopped at the gateway to the mountain town, and they could go no further. The mountain town had traffic lanes, that were peculiar, very very peculiar to the visitors from all over the world.

So they drove back to where they came from.

Then the Mayor decided to build a new Gateway with an Oaken Arch. He went on air to announce that "henceforth any car will drive anywhere in mountaintown" Those who built cars that drove to the left wondered how. Those who built cars that drove to the right wondered how. They all arrived at the mountain town to find the new Gateway with the Oaken Arch.

Beneath the Oaken Arch were hundreds of multi-district drivers, clothed in oaken leaves for an uniform, who asked them where they wanted to be taken. Some said Chinese District, some said Roman District, others said French District and yet others said Indian District. The driver in the oaken uniform took up the task of driving on to himself, and drove them around, for they are made like that, made to drive anycar anywhere. The newcomers didn't have to hire four drivers to drive in four districts. Any new car destined for any District simply had to find its way to the Oaken Arch. The oaken drivers took over and handled anycar anylane anywhere.

Oaken Arch had a pool of drivers for everywhere, so everycar did not have to carry one driver for every district. Everyone lived happily ever after.

Coca Cola and Java

If Java powers 4.5 billion devices including 800 million computers, 1.5 billion mobile devices and 2.2 billion smart cards, then more people use Java than the number of people who have EVER tasted Coca Cola ONCE.

Relatively speaking, Java is unknown. Why?

Java embedded Solaris.

In my previous post I asked an uneducated abstract question "Would there be greater harmony between the desktop interface and the application programs if Java Desktop happens to be the desktop interface in a Sun Solaris machine? Because there is an "already-java" environment in the machine (machine in layman's terms)?

The summary of the responses is that Java Desktop is not rich in Java code and so it doesn't make sense.

I am asking a little more educated question (just a little more) here:

Java programs are compiled for the Java Virtual Machine into Java byte code first. For the Java bytecode to work, a Windows version of Java Interpreter has to installed in Windows, a Linux version of Java Interpreter has to be installed in Linux...

Q:

Is the same sequence followed for Sun Solaris ?

If yes, then I would wonder why. (If you are not aware or forgotten, Sun owns Java. Sun owns Solaris.)

There may be Java variations such as IBM's, but Java as it is is Sun's own. Why wouldn't Sun take the Java Interpreter to the core of Solaris which is also its own? I am striking a difference between installing a Java Interpreter on an O/S from integrating an interpreter like instruction mechanism into the very core of the Operating System.

It is like making it unnecessary for Solaris to have a Java interpreter. (Would you need a translator by your side to translate English into English?) It is like weaving the Java execution capability right into the very core of the kernel of Solaris Operating System. That would result in a significant difference between the way Solaris runs Java from the way another Operating System runs Java.

I know that technically it can be done. But I don't know if it is already done.

In this scenario, would Sun Solaris "speak" Java like its mother tongue, as compared with other operating systems???

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