{"id":3717,"date":"2014-03-29T08:27:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T08:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/29\/net-or-java-based-small-desktop-app-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2014-03-29T08:27:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T08:27:10","slug":"net-or-java-based-small-desktop-app-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/29\/net-or-java-based-small-desktop-app-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":".NET or Java based small desktop app-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, first, how important is cross platform support to you? If this is very important then Java is the way to go as .NET is really a non-starter in your situation. However, if you are considering .NET then I&#8217;m assuming cross-platform is not critical in which case .NET will provide you a simpler path to have your application look and behave like a typical Windows application.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the issue of downloading the framework being a barrier; well many users will not have JRE. But also, many users will not have the <em>latest<\/em> version of the .NET framework either. It really depends on how serious these barriers are to you, how important cross platform support is, and who your target audience is.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: I should have mentioned this but there is a possibility to use &#8220;static linking&#8221; sort of tools like Xenocode&#8217;s PostBuild.NET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, first, how important is cross platform support to you? If this is very important then Java is the way to go as .NET is really a non-starter in your situation. However, if you are considering .NET then I&#8217;m assuming cross-platform is not critical in which case .NET will provide you a simpler path to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}