[Serious-discuss] anyone heard of java studio?

[<ji...@li...>]

I was at barnes and noble this weekend and they had a book about 
"codeless programming" in java using java studio. It turns out that the 
product was discontinued 2 years ago, but the technology looked like an 
Appware/Microbrew ripoff. BIG TIME!

Here is a sample chapter:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/Books/Graphics2

It looks like you can create and import beans, applets and applications. 
The studio runs on solaris and windows.

I'm going to order a copy (we are a reseller and I see one of our 
distribution sources STILL has 8 copies in a memphis warehouse). Anyone 
else want a copy? They are $99.00. I'll try to talk our rep down (why 
would they want it?) 

The book, Java Studio by example has a 30 day demo. The book is cheap if 
you get it from amazon. but 40 bucks at barnes and noble (I'm returning 
mine for a 14.95 off of the web.)

There is another book, the "java studio blue book" that buy.com has for 
$40. Otherwise ,the software was just not publicized well.

Its obsolete software (the story of my life), unsupported (again, the 
story...) by might prove useful to us non-coding types that want to help. 
I read one review that said the tab order of text fields is not intuitive 
in java studio created forms. very little else out there.

I'm sure this isn't a starting place for the serious project, just an 
item of note...

Any thoughts?

jim

p.s. dare I even say it - "I wonder if they (insert name of big, 
heartless NOS vendor here) would open the source..."


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