Java Performance/Python etc

[Simon Bowring]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:20:42 -0400 (EDT), Rodney R. Korte wrote:

>and that it really doesn't do anything that couldn't be done before.
Sorry, but Java really does allow things that have never been implemented 
in any other (mainstream) langauge - an example follows in a moment!

>People actually sell ideas by saying that Java can do this or that, and 
>implying that it can't be done with other languages ("platform 
>independence" is an example of this).
Java has a higher level of platform independence than any other
language - to the extent of being able to "serialiaze" a live running
object with all it's methods and state, compress (zip) it up, transfer 
it to one or more remote machines (running differnt OS's and with 
different CPUs) and then remotely invoke the objects' methods.
No other language provides this functionality, and I'd be interested in
how you think this can be implemented in C++ (it can't without writing
an entire language and platform independant *compiler or interpretter*,
i.e. without writing something like java!).

>Shared libraries (Beans) are an example of that. 
Java Beans are *not* equivalent to shared libraries/DLLs, any/all
Java classes can be used or thought of as "shared libraries". 

Beans are "components" more akin MS's .VBXs and .OCXs or whatever 
they're called today - Java beans are technically superior though, 
because they can participate in inheritance and are cross-platform.

Simon