On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:37:11PM -0500, Scott Murray wrote:
> I don't really mean to be a bastard here, but here's an excerpt from one
> of your postings to this list earlier today:
>
> The Sun/Inprise port is not the same of Blackdown's, that's why the release
> number is different. The Sun/Inprise port is actually the latest codebase
> from Sun and includes several fixes to Swing that were found in the stock
> 1.2.2 release.
>
> What were we supposed to think?
My reply was to somebody that wondered why Sun was posting RC1 when
Blackdown had released RC3. My answer was just to point out that the
two are not the same and in fact they are not. The above statement
should also read "... fixes to Swing that were not found in the stock
1.2.2 release."
> As well, I've read three different press
> articles on this today, and none of them contained the word "Blackdown".
> If Inprise/Sun wanted to give credit to the Blackdown team for providing
> a base for their further work, I would have expected something, especially
> since the press releases for this were delayed several days.
The credit should be clear in other articles that should appear on the
press. Our folks at Java Expo have been clear about it. Give it a
little more time.
> It's not like
> Sun doesn't know about the Blackdown team, they made them a licensee last
> year with great fanfare.
Yep, and I can't talk for Sun, as a matter of fact I'm not a
spokesperson for Inprise either but just one of the developers. So
while I don't know if Sun is going to give credit to Blackdown for the
work done on the JDK, we at Inprise are doing our best to recognize
the effort and time spent by these people. Actually I would love to
see the effort of both groups merge to have the best of both
worlds. We truly ported this JDK in parallel and the release of the
Blackdown 1.2.2 was a surprise for us. It will be probably problematic
to extacly figure out the exact difference but I would love, for
example, to see the native threads working in the Sun/Inprise port.
Also, I don't know what is the base for Blackdown port but our port is
based on 1.2.2-004.
The bottom line, and I didn't see a post about this, is that now Linux
has a fully functional JDK/JRE that can be used to port thousands of
applications. For many companies this was the key factor to adopt
Linux. Another consequense of Inprise advocating for this port (yes,
we had a lot of talks with Sun to convince them to be directly
involved in this) is that now Sun is giving Linux equal treatment and
future releases of the JDK will be ported to Linux together with the
other two main versions: Windows and Solaris. This is a big
improvement and is another key factor in evaluating Linux as a viable
platform. The MacOS still today has no Java 2 support, for what I
know.
Trying to close with a positive note...this is just the beginning for
Java on Linux, hold on tight ;)
--
Paolo Ciccone
JBuilder dev.team
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