Re: GUI controls for instrumentation

[Andrew Overholt <overholt redhat com>]

* Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas mailhot laposte net> [2006-03-25 05:12]:
> On the client part it's a shockingly bad idea (and I include applets
> there). Googling will find you boatloads of apps that choose java for
> portability and still can not run on anything else than windows, because
> just deploying the right JVM on all the systems you may target is a
> major problem (and I'm not even counting the free stacks there).
> 
> If it where that easy, we'd have the latest eclipse version in Fedora
> with all the major plugins instead of the current situation.

Perhaps I'm missing context here, but I sense an implication that something
is wrong with "the current situation".  Am I correct?

Andrew