Fabrizio, Brussels sprouts (cavoletti di Bruxelles) are a vegetable that few people actually like, but it still seems to persist at Christmas and I imagine in Thanksgiving meals in the US. Equally, JavaFX is something that few people actually like, mainly because it doesn't really seem to exist, but it still seems to persist at JavaONE and leaves a bad smell.
2011/5/31 Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]>: > On 05/31/2011 05:36 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Steven Herod <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> This may also help out on the cross platform question: >> http://fxexperience.com/2011/05/is-javafx-2-0-cross-platform/ >> >> >> Yes, in the sense that the answer is "Not at the moment and we can't tell >> you when". >> >> Obviously, we can't know if Oracle is being truthful when they say that >> JavaFX will be cross platform at some undetermined time in the future, but >> we can definitely draw some conclusions from the fact that they chose to >> release a Windows-only version first: this is the clear sign that the >> development process of JavaFX is not multi platform. > > I disagree. This means that the QA process is not multi platform (they could > have Mac and Linux versions, but not tested enough to be released). I recall > that even JavaFX 1.0 handled by Sun first appeared for Windows only, if I'm > not wrong. > > Of course, if you want to recover a technology that failed in v1.0 perhaps > is not a good move to release support for a single operating system _and_ > not announcing when the support for Mac and Linux will come. > > > DISCLAIMER. I signed a NDA as an early accessor to the technology and I'm > not using in this comment any information that I might have obtained in a > confidential way from Oracle. > > PS I don't want to get into any personal flame, but I was unable to > understand the meaning of "brussels sprout" metaphor in this context. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
