> If i were Google I would fire whoever said to buy Sun was a bad idea. Amen, I think we were many hoping for this. If anyone could revitalize the Java platform, it would've been Google - sadly the lawyers won over the engineers this time around.
> Many are just wrappers around what they have. Their widget toolkit > (WCF - sorry the exact name escapes me) is just a wrapper around > Windows - its not an attempt to make something new and better but > firstly a wrapper. Not really true. Microsoft introduced WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation aka Avalon) with .NET 3.0 as a replacement for the old GDI system as a way to gain DirectX acceleration, unicode support etc. Silverlight uses a subset of this model, and has been ported by Microsoft to Mac and by the Mono guys to Linux. The old way of doing things, using Windows Forms, was indeed a thin wrapper around win32/ GDI a la SWT and similar. /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.
