Tom Flynn

I was introduced to Java in the Fall of 1995 when most of the industry viewed Java as a language to be used for developing applets. At the time, several colleagues of mine were looking at Java with great excitement but not as an applet development platform. These were developers working to bring distributed computing solutions to the average corporate IS organization. Unfortunately, things were not going well. It was painfully obvious that distributed computing was just too difficult, and much of that difficulty revolved around development of business logic in C or C++. Java offered the promise of a development language that was easier to learn than C or C++ yet robust enough to be used for complex business applications. Today, that same group of developers that introduced me to Java is still developing distributed applications; however, they are a lot more optimist... (more)