Sorry guys, but I just don't buy that JavaFX had no negative effect on JSR's and JSE development. Could we drop the feel-good spin for a moment and consider the evidence:
- Some JSR's are as good as abandoned, i.e. JSR-296 where the spec lead (before quitting Sun) publicly acknowledged that he was being pulled in to working on JavaFX stuff. - A lot of senior people have left Sun, many from the Swing/client team and oddly over to the competitor client technology. This can't possibly be spun as a positive thing. - SwingLabs lost sponsorship, this is the place you'd turn to if you should have the ridiculous luxury need for a date picker or similar. - We still don't have a Java language JSR even though Java 7 was destined for summer 09'. Indeed Neal Gafter's comments on the lack of leadership and steering suggests this to be the primary reason for him jumping ship. While that may be acceptable to Sun and indeed it had some positive effect on the runtime, stating that it had no negative effect on JSR's and JSE development is just dumb because clearly it had. Can we just call a spade a spade?! /Casper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
