i'm fairly new to Apple & OS/X (about a month w/ my TiBook), and have thus not run into the native code dependency problems (yet).
i'm all for anything that would elevate the dev community's issues to both camps (Sun/Apple). -doug > -----Original Message----- > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:05 PM > To: Jakarta General List > Subject: Re: You guys are so funny. > > > > > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > > >> I am. I use a mac w/ OS X :) > > > > > > Same here... Everywhere... :) > > > > > > > Me too. I'm hooked. TiBook wherever I go, dualie 800 at > home. Can't go > > back. > > 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. > > 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. > > Sun are taking most of the flak it seems. > > 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? > > Or is it a, "Yeah, but we care more about the majority of users, ie) > newbies. " > > 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. > > [Thought that rant/comment was vaguely on topic....] > > Hen > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
