> I've seen few Java applications that don't run at 1/100th the speed of
> their previous (non Java) version.
> Am I wrong? Are there good examples of large, complicated, Java
> applications that run just as well as a natively compiled version?

Look at the JMRI program suite, written in Java, runs across all OS platfor=
ms. It is a large suite that has very few bugs, and appears to run at very =
acceptable speed - it has to, it is doing real time things in that it is de=
signed to control a model railway, so things have to happen in an appropria=
te timescale.

It is an open source project, with a reasonable size development team, and =
a yahoo support group.

See http://jmri.org/ for the download and information pages. The support gr=
oup is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jmriusers/



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