Bob (solidly) > ... Ada, the successor to Java ... Mike (humbly) > Bob is right, but we need the container, gui, and communications > classes: everything that comes with Java... Chris > Bob has very good ideas. We need to commit to > CONTRIBUTING (for free)... Richard > My June column in JOOP is about using Ada instead of > Java for creating Applets... Martin (boldly) > Whatever ... Java has, I will deliver it in Ada by fall. Full Circle: The free Java Developers Kit comes with a Classes.zip file that is 9 megabytes. Could we please have those classes in Ada-95? It also comes with fonts and sample programs for distributing data and processing across the Net. How can I CONTRIBUTE in helping you make this large delivery this Fall? Why could there not be a single standardized library of data structures and Net and Gui interfaces that were common to C, C++, Java, and Ada-95? Mike Brenner [log in to unmask]