Hmm. I must say all the forums I've seen on the web that use Java are very very fast. They are basically like Chat forums where the information appear right away. Kind of pre loading the information I guess and then displaying what you want. You could do this with Javascript too, I guess. Well kind of going off topic now.

Yes, the beauty of Java is most definitly teh chance to design better GUI. You can build your own program I guess, which should be standalone and should theorteicaly be able to run on any platform.

Hmm. I guess I'll have to try some coding in Java for myself and see what results I get.

Alex, you are definitly right about the speed issue though. Using FastCGI and/or mod_perl you should see the same speed, if not faster using perl/cgi.

But when broadband comes into reality? DO you think more and more opeople will start coding bigger java applets? At the moment, the speed of the net for many is no fast enough to download java applets? same as shockwave or flash I guess ??
Cheers

Wil

- wil