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- From: rmartin@oma.com (Robert C. Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 19:31:29 GMT
- Organization: Object Mentor
- Message-ID: <RMARTIN.96Mar13133129@rcm.oma.com>
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- In-reply-to: ell@access1.digex.net's message of 12 Mar 1996 14:09:24 GMT
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- In article <4i40ik$9dt@news4.digex.net> ell@access1.digex.net (Ell) writes:
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- What is you can do in Java, you can't do as easily with a library in C++?
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- This isn't the right question. Java's power has nothing to do with
- what the *language* itself can or cannot do in comparison to what C++
- can or cannot do. Java's power comes from the *environment* in which
- it executes.
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- Java applets execute *inside* a web browser. That means that I can
- write programs that will execute on anybody else's machine, without
- their knowledge; regardless of the kind of machine they are running.
-
- Now, usually, this would be a severe breech of security. After all,
- if you can execute arbitrary programs on anybody's machine, then there
- are all kinds of ways of finding back doors and wormholes into their
- system. A security nightmare.
-
- The idea with Java is that you can allow other people's applets to run
- on your system without fear of unauthorized access. Thus, Java
- applets should not be able to access or manipulate any of the secure
- information on the systems in which they run.
-
- Now, what can you do with software that can run on any web browser
- that brings up your web pages......?
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