Re: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-10-26 Thread Dain Sundstrom
On Oct 26, 2004, at 1:17 AM, Danny Angus wrote: 1/ Ok don't flame me... "Method pointers" If you want method pointers today, just get a good byte code generation tool. We use cglib in Geronimo to generate FastMethod objects, which look a lot like reflection Method but are about a 100 times faste

Re: FW: RE: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-10-26 Thread Dan Lydick
> [Original Message] > From: Bernhard Fastenrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jakarta General List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 10/26/04 2:09:02 PM > Subject: Re: FW: RE: Future JDK features 2 items > > Dan Lydick wrote: > > >> <>From: Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>1/ Ok don't flame

Re: FW: RE: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-10-26 Thread Bernhard Fastenrath
Dan Lydick wrote: <>From: Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/ Ok don't flame me... "Method pointers" But still, be sure to watch for flames from the Purist Society! They _do_ have a point, ya know. I *know* it is possible to accomplish all the delegation one might want by using polymo

FW: RE: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-10-26 Thread Dan Lydick
> [Original Message] > From: Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 10/26/04 3:17:32 AM > Subject: Future JDK features 2 items > > > 1/ Ok don't flame me... "Method pointers" But still, be sure to watch for flames from the Purist Society! They _do_

Future JDK features 2 items

2004-10-26 Thread Danny Angus
1/ Ok don't flame me... "Method pointers" I *know* it is possible to accomplish all the delegation one might want by using polymorphism, but this often leads to unncessary screeds of boiler-plate, so I still I believe there is a case for some kind of streamlining of delegation by allowing it to b

Re: future JDK features: CHARVA

2004-10-26 Thread Serge Huber
I would LOVE for the JRE to have something like Charva ! Or at the very least a way to build cross-platform text-based interfaces without the need for JNI calls. Regards, Serge... Bernhard Fastenrath wrote: CHARVA awt+swing as selectable features of the JRE and as default in Unix environments w