Collection interfaces

[Lex Spoon]

Phil Earnhardt <pae at dim.com> writes:

> On 27 Mar 2001 18:42:49 -0500, Lex Spoon <lex at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 
> >matso at dtek.chalmers.se (Mats Olsson) writes:
> >
> >>     Yea, use a Java applet instead. Guaranted not to fiddle with your
> >> DLL's :-)
> >
> >Oh great, so we get to fiddle with JAR's instead of DLL's!  At least
> >JAR is easier to pronounce.  :)
> 
> Can you explain your comment, Lex? How is downloading and running
> applets from a jarfile have anything to do with fiddling with DLLs?


Java programs tend to require you to have various extensions installed
as JAR files, just the same way that Windows EXE's tend to require
that you have various extensions installed as DLL's.  I'd hazard that
JAR's are *worse* than DLL's -- DLL's at least *pretend* to do
something about versions.


Admittedly, I missed the "applet" part.  Applets run with a standard
set of classes available, so they don't have that problem.  (Instead,
they have the problem that *no* extensions are available.  Easy to set
up, but not as powerful!  :))


-Lex