Closed Source Java Applications
843810Sep 16 2004 — edited Sep 22 2004Hi all,
In my opinion, the fact that you cannot make a program which is closed source is really the weakest part of java. Open source is nice, everyone use it, and everyone try to make a contribution to open source projects, but there should be closed source projects too. Because you may want to hide the algorithms in your code. Some people argue that obfuscastors are enough, and if your algorithm is really good, nobody can understand your code. But i don't think so. More your algorithms are difficult, more people will try to deobfuscate your code, and explore it.
This is also, java's weakest point when compared to c# and .net
MS VJ++ is dead, and gcj is not enough. I hope Sun would take the measures of it.