Re[2]: Anyone doing a Java-based robot yet?

Tangy Verdell (TVerdell@dca.com)
Tue, 20 Feb 96 10:03:49 EST

I went through this deliberation.

We decided to go with C++ but for specific reasons. Since we are
using CORBA distributed objects in our product, we needed a way of
communication between these objects Now, there is a product called
BlackWidow by Orbeline which allows Java apps to communicate with
DOBs. But it is in Beta.

Also, linking in the stuff already done for robots in C and perl would
be more cumbersome than just using C++.

However, I would like to share classes but since I work for a company
who will own this code I can't do so. But I still would like to share
ideas.

Tangy
TVerdell@dca.com


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Subject: Re: Anyone doing a Java-based robot yet?
Author: robots@webcrawler.com at Internet
Date: 2/18/96 3:26 PM

Nick Arnett wrote:

> 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.

Regards,

Adam

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At 10:54 AM 2/16/96 PST, you wrote:
>>      Bots and Other Internet Beasties 
>>      Joseph Williams
>>      Sams Net
>>      1-57521-016-9
>>      Published in April
>
>Just an aside: the publisher of this book was sending out pretty broad 
>"Please write this book!" messages to lots of people on various 
>mailing lists and Web sites. Both Oren and I received one, as well as 
>most of the rest of the UW Softbots group. Needless to say, while I 
>don't want to say anything about Mr. Williams or his writing, I did 
>want to mention that the publisher's standards for authors seemed 
>quite low.
>
>-Erik
>