multimedia software

Harold wrote:

> Probably due to loosing control of the software.  Right now java, as I
> understand it, is meant to narrowly address programming needs without
> allowing attacks such as activeX does.  This is probably a reason for
> its popularity.

That's not Java at all.  Java is a generalized programming language.  There
has never been anything "narrow" about what it is "meant" to do, though the
first few versions didn't quite meet up with the developers' vision.  Sun's
vision was "write once, run anywhere" (that might not be quite the slogan
they used...) and they seriously had hopes of it taking the world by storm
and becoming the most used programming language.  If they'd made it open
source, they might even have achieved that.

Its popularity is probably due to the fact that it's the one language that
most colleges teach these days (though some are beginning to move to
python).
-- 
derek