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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>Tom,
>
>  Have you tried any of the alternative implementations of Java?
>Sun's isn't the only one out there.
>

I have.

I'm sorry, I am mostly venting my frustration with Java as a language, 
Sun as a company, and J2EE as a hugely bloated and over-architected 
solution in dire need of a problem.