Java portability

[Diancecht]

Hi all.

We all know that one of the most significant advantages of Java it's its portability: you can write once and run many times a program without caring about the underlying operative system.

Is that rigth? Well, from my experience, as long as you run away form character encodings, filesystems and permissions. graphical components and a few more, it is.

Now I'm looking for other experiences on OS changing with Java application. Any comments will be highly appreciated and a discussion is always wellcome, but I was focusing my attention in Win2K and WinXP and even mor on thread handling.

I don't know if there are differences in there, maybe I'm just getting paranoic.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[stefanwagner]

I once tested threads on my dual-boot-system, linux and win2k, and was surprised how many threads I could start on linux.

I tested on W2K and was surprised to find nearly the same values there.

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