I genuinely feel .NET is the way of the future... BUT it's not ready yet. It's still early days for the system and I don't think its mainstream enough for us to consider it, especially given the size of the framework. 20mb mite be a matter of minutes for a broadband user but it's approaching an hour for 56k. Before the user has a chance to even fire up our app they have to take (considerable) time and effort to download and install the framework. Which IMHO is too much to ask of them. We want them to have easy, instant access.
Another very important point about .NET is my partner in crime tried installing the framework as part of the Visual Studio installation when we were first considering it and the install failed midway thru with the result that his machine is fairly messed up now. When reinstalling he gets the same error. We didnt think this boded particularly well - if even we can't install the framework first time error free then what hope do we have for our users?
And yes we will be using version 1.4 of the JDK
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