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Background
NeXtMidas Design
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- NeXtMidas Design:
- NeXtMidas was designed by Jeff Schoen who had been one of the primary developers
of X-Midas.
- NeXtMidas borrows a lot of the design features from X-Midas.
- NeXtMidas incorporates the "lessons learned" from years of
X-Midas development.
- At times NeXtMidas sacrifices Object-Oriented design to be "X-Midas'ish".
- This makes it easier for X-Midas users to transition to NeXtMidas.
- This also facilitates interoperability with X-Midas.
- Prior to the release of NeXtMidas 2.0.0 in May 2005, NeXtMidas was required to be
Java 1.1-compatible (even though Java 5 had already been released).
- This was a customer requirement due to continued use of Netscape 4.7 (which was
used to run some NeXtMidas applets).
- This restriction played a major role in many design decisions.
- NeXtMidas had to use AWT rather than Swing.
- NeXtMidas could not use Java's New-IO (NIO) package.
- NeXtMidas could only use a subset of the Java Collections Framework (this
is why NeXtMidas has its own Table and KeyVector classes).
- New versions of NeXtMidas generally support Java versions that Oracle
supports at the time of the NeXtMidas release. Usually this is the current
version of Java plus two back versions.
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