[PLUG] Java programmers?

[Rich Shepard]

  Are there any java application (not applet or Web) developers here? I'm
starting to learn the language and will be porting a C program to java but I
have several questions about assembling the final package for distribution
or use.

  For example, since paths are included in .jar files, what allows the
program to be installed and run on a completely different system? If
applications consist of "hundreds or thousands of classes" (according to the
ORA "Learning Java" authors), and each class has to be compiled separately,
how the heck does one manage the project? And, since java has
easy-to-implement threads, can an application be built to run on
multi-processor machines or Beowulf clusters with appropriate processes
running in parallel?

TIA,

Rich

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