> and I can't think of any desktop applications that use Java anymore. The desktop application everyone has to use to report the income tax in my country is wr

> and I can't think of any desktop applications that use Java anymore. The desktop application everyone has to use to report the income tax in my country is written in Java. Which is nice since it runs anywhere that has a recent enough JRE; in a distant past, before it was rewritten in Java, it was first a DOS-only and then a Windows-only desktop application.