Someone in today's 6.1 webcast asked if they'd be able to write externaltask scripts in Java now, and the answer was "no" but they are looking into this in a future version of TeamSite. After using Java to write a simple app I can't fathom why anyone would find Java a better language to write external scripts than perl. Perl makes pretty much anything so easy to accomplish in a script, whereas Java makes life difficult in string manipulation, parsing, regex, etc.
So my question is what reasons would anyone want to do their externaltask scripts in Java instead of perl?
Dave SmithSr. Software Engineer
Nike, Inc.
(503) 671-4238
DavidH.Smith@nike.com
