At Thu, 08 Jul 1999 Peter Pilgrim wrote:
>It is been well over 6 months since we have seen Java 2.
>It has been available for Solaris and Windows (NT) since the launch,
>but linux is faltering still not released yet. I presume this is
>the status for other platforms like hp-unix, aix, apple etc.
AFAIK, IBM has a JAVA2 beta for AIX and I'll bet the final will be out soon.
Apple is still recovering from Microsoft dropping support for MRJ, so they had
terrible problems in delivering a stable 1.1 release.
According to some Apple guy I talked to at JavaONE, Apple still concentrates
finishing 1.1 support and will start Java2 support later on.
>I am wondering if Sun has overstretch itself in trying to develop so
>many APIs? It seems to me that they are struggling and there is enough
>support and help to help outsiders (like Blackdown who done an excellent
>job porting the software)?
IMHO the JDK has reached a stage in which it wont be extended a lot more.
SUN is now concentrating on the enterprise and embedded versions, so it is
easier for porters to keep track.
SUN is no charity organisation, so they are still looking how to get some bucks
out of the technology. They won't help eg IBM or HP or even Apple finishing
their JRE, as those directly compete with SUN in the Server market.
It would be a consequent step if they started charging the enterprise edition
(though it is not propable).
Delivering a complete solution makes it also difficult for other technologies
to keep track (eg. Microsofts COOL technology) and gives more reasons using
JAVA instead of some other architectures.
I don't think they will continue spitting out so many different new APIs and
concentrate on finishing and supporting the existent ones.
Oliver
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