There is no argument about Java the programming language -- there are some issues about Java the user interface builder |
First there are the battles between Sun Netscape and Microsoft which makes Java on the client less robust than Java on the server |
However Java allows to build totally general users interfaces and there appear to be no rules and nothing equivalent to style sheets in HTML/XML. |
Thus it does not seem practical to build cross disability and cross rendering device interfaces for arbitrary Java applet interfaces |
On the other JavaScript and dynamic HTML can do many things that you might have thought one needed Java for |
General Java visual interfaces need languages such as UML to describe interface object model? |