I remember the Java hype c. 1999. It was such jumping the shark ultrahype of the platform, the language, and OOP. The one thing it did though, it allowed me to

I remember the Java hype c. 1999. It was such jumping the shark ultrahype of the platform, the language, and OOP. The one thing it did though, it allowed me to produce an installer for a niche DOS-based building code text search engine and JNI allowed calling the functions to produce a Windows 95/NT desktop shortcut (a .PIF). I even added a feature where it was per-customer skinnable with a .BMP.