on 5/3/02 10:04 AM, "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Apple Java list has had some complaints recently that Sun don't care > about Apple users and that Apple can't supply the time to support Java > users. Well duh. Apple's business model doesn't revolve around Java. > Apple are doing a great job, but JAI, J3D, J2ME, J2EE, Jblahblah and all > the other Sun released APIs which have native parts (J2EE deployer does I > think) are not available yet. Sun's basic response is to talk to Apple, > Apple's is: We'll get around to it, it's a lot to do. I personally try to ignore the native parts simply because that isn't in the spirit of Java IMHO. What I care about is the implementations of the JDK's. I want JDK 1.4. I know Apple is working on it. > Sun are taking most of the flak it seems. It is that great flaming fireball in the sky and most of the time they deserve it. :-) > I wonder what a survey of Jakarta developers coding environments would > show. If Sun were to discover that 40% of Jakarta committers prefer OS X, > would that change their opinion etc? Remember, they are the center of the universe. :-) > Or is it a, "Yeah, but we care more about the majority of users, ie) > newbies. " The FreeBSD port was the overwhelming #1 feature request for a LONG time. Sun ignored it and even made it difficult to get the port done. > I can see a good reason for not supporting J2EE well on a Mac. Until Apple > release a 1U OS X server there's not much point, but the rest are a shame. Moot point. There are after market cases for 1U servers... -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
