On Monday 05 August 2002 21:00, you wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:24:05PM -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > The good thing about Java though, particularly non-GUI Java apps,
>
> Umm, excuse some dumb questions. I've never coded in Java. I only know
> that it resembles C++ but does its own garbage collection. And that
> browsers can run Java apps if there's a Java runtime and the browser has
> Java enabled.
>
> So based on your post, is it true that you can run a Java app outside a
> browser?
Yes. There are quite a few apps that are java based and they run on any
platform with the jre installed they are written for.
>Second question is: how is it that you can have a "non-GUI"
> java app? Like one that could run in a curses environment?
Correct. A gui is not necessary.
>Or when you
> say "non-GUI", you really mean "has to run in X, but doesn't need a
> mouse to work"?
??
Smitty
>
> Paul
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