Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Philipp Kempgen wrote: > >> Tim Panton wrote: >>> What's your objection to a softphone in java ? > >> Java is slow and the interface is always ugly and doesn't fit >> into the window manager etc. you are used to. :-P I never understood >> why I would use Java to write software when I could use C(++) or >> when a script language would do. The simple fact that people have >> 2 or 3 GHz doesn't mean that I have to burn them for nothing. >> The only point may be portability. > > FWIW: I've been trialling the Mexuar Java phone over the past few days, > and I feel that I have to say that what you've just written really doesn't > apply. So what if you have to burn the cpu and need a 2GHz processor? > > Here the the output from top on my desktop when it's running: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 5211 gordon 15 0 272m 31m 14m S 5.3 4.2 0:03.59 java_vm > > CPU details from /proc/cpuinfo: > > model name : AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+ > cpu MHz : 1800.231 > cache size : 256 KB > > So it's hardly a new processor, and 5% usage is nothing.
Ok. I may have over-generalized this a bit. > As for the interface - it's as ugly as you care to write a web-page round > it. Mexuars own one looks "pretty good" to me, and it's 100% customisable. > The workhorse is very cleverly hidden behind a standard web-page and > javascript interface, so it's you who writes the interface and javascript > shim to interface to the java applet, not the vendor (unless you pay them, > I guess ;-) Can it run as a standalone app outside of the browser? > You made the point of portability - a big plus for me. My desktop is > Linux, but I work with people who have Mac and Win desktops. Having > something that looks the same and acts the same over all platforms is a > boon (principle of least surprise) Right. Need to give it a try before I can talk about it any further. :) Regards, Philipp -- amooma GmbH - Bachstr. 126 - 56566 Neuwied - http://www.amooma.de Let's use IT to solve problems and not to create new ones. Asterisk? -> http://www.das-asterisk-buch.de Geschäftsführer: Stefan Wintermeyer Handelsregister: Neuwied B 14998 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users