suggestion?

[Igor Gueths]

This is true. But Java aps in my opnion are much harder to get running.
Something like Freenet for example, I had no luck with. I tried about 3
ddifferent runtimes on Linux, and none of them worked.

May you code in the power of the source,
may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Doug wrote:

> Java is not inherently GUI ... there is a GUI building API
> (Swing), but you can compile java on the command line.
> There is also an accessibility API for Java, which is
> supposed to allow alternative access to the graphical
> Swing world, although I haven't tried it.
>
> BTW Java applets are only one facet of Java, which I
> think is over emphasized. Applets have a numver of real
> problems, especially browser implemnentations of the
> necessary APIs (inconsitencies). I work on Java all the
> time and I never recommend applets. Instead I recommend
> servlets generating web pages for most user interfaces.
>
> One nice thing is that FreeTTS implements the JSAPI
> (Java Speech API) with the help of Flite, so it's easy
> to make talking Java apps. However, this is onlt speech
> synthesis, the recognition stuff is not done yet. Last
> I heard there are plans to implement the recognition
> part of JSAPI using Sphinx.
>
> I used to work for Sun, JavaSoft no less, they are
> good engineers ... if you think that Java is lacking
> in accessibility, I encourage you to try contacting
> their accessibility folks ...
>
> Keep in mind that Java does not equal applets nor
> GUI ... Swing is just part of java ... most of the
> Java I have done is not graphical ... See this ...
>
> http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/accessibility.html
>
>
>
>    -- Doug
>
>
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