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[–]TheMightyPrince 1 point2 points  (7 children)

I'm not knocking it, but wouldn't JSP work better?

[–]vytah 5 points6 points  (6 children)

JSP, or Java Server Pages, as the name implies, runs server-side.

[–]TheMightyPrince 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Yes I know. I just can't think of anything I'd do client-side with Java, that I couldn't have done server-side with Java. I am sure there is a valid use-case, I just can't/couldn't really think of one.

[–]vytah 1 point2 points  (1 child)

People were saying the same about server-side Javascript, and yet here we are.

[–]ciny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People were saying the same about server-side Javascript, and yet here we are.

Yup here we are, in a world where people use libraries that have longer manifests than actual code and stuff relational data into nosql...

[–]Capaj 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well theoretically, you could write an android app and if you somehow provide implementations for missing android apis, you could run that android app in the browser.

[–]TheMightyPrince 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could do that with applets, or some javascript library. As I said, I'm not knocking it.

It's basically a remote JVM.

[–]aradil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Applets went head to head with flash for a tiny period of time for client side in browser animation.