> UNIX admin wrote: > > Other people have addressed the other issues you > raised, I'll address > this one: > > > I'm thinking that Java failed to deliver on the > promise of "write > > once, run anywhere". Java programs developed on > Windows do not, up to > > this present day, work on Solaris; > > That is incorrect. I've been working on a GUI app > that runs unchanged on > both Windows *and* Solaris, and uses the native L&F > on *both* platforms > with *no* code changes.
Don't you worry one bit - there's pah-lenty of Java stuff out there that doesn't work WITHOUT code changes. > > > it's a revision dependency hell - for example, > Java 1.6.whatever broke > > Azaureus; Legato NetWorker front end busts with > Java 1.5.0 even though > > it says it should work and "to ignore the > warning". > Azureus? Do you mean > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=655 > 0813? How is a > bug in some external Windows DLL Java's fault? "We encountered an unexpected error. Please try back again." Powered by Java Server Pages, perhaps? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. It's a shame the thing has spread like a virus on millions of devices over the past ten years. As for Azureus, all I know, as an end user, that one day a nice baloon popped up telling me to upgrade Java, which I did. After that, Azureus mysteriosly stopped working. It wasn't until I explicitly uninstalled the "latest and greatest" Java "upgrade" and explicitly installed 1.4.x that the thing started working again. Now I don't care what caused it. All I care, as a dumb Windows user in that moment, that when the latest and "greatest" Java comes onto the system, my app stops working. Nice. > And as for Legato, both our internal bug database and > Gogle draw a > blank, do you have any more details? What do you need? Screenshots? Null pointer Exceptions? Explicitly pointing /usr/java to JDK 1.4.2 fixes the "problem", and NetWorker GUI fires up. But anyway, be that as it may, I better shut up, I've got to watch my blood pressure. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
