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Blame Java!

A couple of incidents have happened to me in the last few days which highlight Java's desperate plight on the desktop.

The first involved a currently existing Java desktop application, a project originally developed at another university which somehow seems to have landed on my desk. The client brought the project to us, requesting a ground up re-write. The reason was made abundantly clear in the opening paragraph of their requirements document:

"The software language must not be Java, as in previous tests this has proved to be temperamental with types of hardware and various accessories."

Note how the software wasn't to blame, nor the original programmers, nor the hardware or OS. The problem is assumed to be 'Java'!

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