drawback of JAVA

HI All,

anyone can explain me that
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what is the drawback of java?
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from my knowledge it is bit slower than c and c++ right? but why?

is there any other drawback?

please any one can explain me..waiting for your earnest reply..

thanks & regards,
seetharaman

every technology has its own tradeoff.. yes java is slower compared to C and C++ because the developers of JAVA were more concerned about platform independence then speed which made the language a bit slow compared to C but then it does offer you features C and C++ does not ... so its a personal judgement wether to consider speed as Java's drawback or to take it just as a tradeoff because it offers other features

Originally posted by abhishek pendkay:
yes java is slower compared to C and C++

This hasn't been the case for quite some time:

Java performance on numerical code is comparable to that of C++,

Is Java Pulling Ahead?

The results I got were that Java is significantly faster than optimized C++ in many cases.

Java is Faster Than C++

C still wins on the first iteration, but Java is actually slightly faster on subsequent iterations!

Java is Faster Than C

Java has drawbacks, interacting with Word and Outlook, or the fact you have to install a VM, but the speed difference between Java and C/C++ performing the same work is negligible.

Java is not really slower than C or C++ anymore. That was a common criticism years ago, but currently Sun's Java VM is so well-optimized (especially the Hotspot just-in-time compiler and the garbage collection algorithms) that it is not really true anymore.

It is hard to speak about "the drawbacks of Java" in a very general sense. Whether Java is a good tool or not depends on the job that you need to do.

For example for low-level system programming, Java is probably not the best tool for the job - because Java was designed to be platform-independent, it can be difficult to do platform-specific things with it.

Thanks All

It's a little bit like asking "What's the drawback of apple pie?"

Oh, for goodness' sakes! Most EVERYBODY knows that cherry pie RULES over apple pie ANYDAY!!

Originally posted by seetharam venkatasamy:
HI All,

Yes java is bit slower than C/C++. To have a platform independent we have to pay the time.There will be no much differenc in time.

Collections classes does not have unique method name to add/remove/manupulate the objects. To run the java developed program all the client should have jvm in the machine.java applets are browser dependent.java.net package have great disadvantge that is being replaced by R.M.I . if you come to know many more list it and send to my private mail
anyone can explain me that
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what is the drawback of java?
-----------------------------------

from my knowledge it is bit slower than c and c++ right? but why?

is there any other drawback?

please any one can explain me..waiting for your earnest reply..

thanks & regards,
seetharaman

. . . and what is your point or question, Joseph Prabhu?