I really think the time has come for a Java gui stuff foundry. (Unless everyone has moved to C# already ;-) ).
-Andy On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 08:00, Santiago Gala wrote: > Paul Hammant wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > *Context* > > > > To remind you, I am a committer on Avalon and Commons with intersts in > > anything that uses avalon-phoenix. Many months ago, I placed a long > > worked on project called Jesktop inside jakarta-avalon-cornerstone's > > CVS as a "demo" application for Avalon-Phoenix. I then did quite a > > bit more work on it. I think it may have been a bit of a mistake. > > Despite continued interest in Jesktop ( I get a private email once a > > week asking "how do I download it"), it is essentially stagnating > > there as I am sidetracked with Enterprise Object Broker and AltRMI > > (and would be with AvalonDB if I had time). > > > I found it a couple of weeks ago, I tested it and it looked a pretty > interesting effort. It looks performant enough for everyday usage. > > Lessons learned (WRT project management): > > 1 it was difficult to find (I think I found it following a link > somewhere in Cocoon, but it was convoluted). > 2 the demo looked interesting, but it was difficult to grasp where and > how Jesktop is going (vision...) > 3 I'm sure a lot of people will use it, feed back on it, improve it if > it is more visible. > > I don't want to enter the discussion about where is it going to happen, > but I would be interested in seeing it happen somewhere. > > As an early dreamer in the Java OS concept I appreciated jesktop a lot. > I have a mental pointer to track it in the future. > > Some years ago, I was raving on java to a MS marketing guy. He told me > "sure, but you are showing me this demo running on Windows". Then I > downloaded java OS (do you remember this?) and next time I met him I > showed java to him running mostly natively (it still used MS-DOS, but > this is little more than a BIOS) . > > I felt about the same when I started jesktop on top of linux-X without > any native Window Manager some days ago. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- www.superlinksoftware.com www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
