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Hello,

I have some open-ended java questions, and I would really appreciate an
answer to any or all of them.

First of all, why is everyone excited about using JDK 1.3, in applets. It
would appear that no web browser supports it or has any plans on supporting
it. Also, I am seeing less and less java applets on web pages. The trend is
XML, javascript, ASP, server-sided programming. I'm 600 pages into my java
book (Beginning Java 2 JDK 1.3 Edition), and I am wondering what I'm doing.
I am very hard pressed to find a good application for a java applet these
days.

Don't get me wrong, I love the language. I think java's foundation on
object-oriented programming is awesome. I'm having much more fun with java
then I did with C++. But I cannot seem find its usefulness. It seems that I
can't use anything I'm learning towards applets, and I still have no idea
what the point would be in developing a Java application. No one has the
hardware to run them efficiently, and pretty much everything done in java
can be made into native code for the actual program.

Can someone please persuade me that Java is a great thing to be learning and
that I should finish my 1200 page book. Thanks for reading this far.

Sincerely,

Sammala
sb@beckerpages.com