Re: Anyone doing a Java-based robot yet?

John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs.columbia.edu)
Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:51:54 -0500

> > Is anybody on the list yet working on a robot in Java?
> > I'd be interesting in sharing code for the basic robot
> > functions over the next few months.
>
> I'd be interested in knowing what Java had to offer to this
> task. I see nothing that makes it a good robot language. It
> also lacks the supporting capabilities that have been provided
> for other languages, e.g. perl and the libwww work.
>
> I am genuinely interested in hearing why it might be a good
> idea.

how to you figure java doesnt have the functional equivalent of libwww when
it has ftp and http classes built on a general protocol and client
classes? it lacks urlencode/urldecode. anyone have this done?

what makes java nice for robots? with interfaces, fetching and using
remote objects is the functional equivalent to CORBA 2.0, albeit much
simpler, which i find to be a big advantage. this kind of robotics :-) is
really interesting.

protocols written in java can be passed down to clients, ala the plain text
protocol in the java tutorial.

-john