Re: [The Java Posse] Any thoughts on Swift?

2014-06-11 Thread Jess Holle
not. As such C will frequently be passed over for many of these sorts of projects (at the very least by C++, but often by Java, C#, and a long list of languages). -- Jess Holle On 6/11/2014 2:28 PM, clay wrote: Your reasons for preferring C are stability and long term longevity? Are those factors

Re: [The Java Posse] Any thoughts on Swift?

2014-06-05 Thread Jess Holle
With Swift's ARC you have unowned and weak references, which you're expected to use to resolve such issues. So the programmer certainly has more responsibility for memory management -- hopefully with greater speed as a result, else it's just a universally bad idea. On 6/5/2014 5:27 AM,

Re: [The Java Posse] Any thoughts on Swift?

2014-06-05 Thread Jess Holle
I also assume ARC requires less memory than GC does for decent performance. GC is maximally easy for the developer, but conversely assumes a certain wealth of computing resources. On 6/5/2014 11:51 AM, Kevin Wright wrote: This one has also been doing the rounds recently:

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Any Excitement about JDK 8?!?

2014-02-28 Thread Jess Holle
Thanks for a nice sane post! I was despairing of seeing any on this thread. On 2/27/2014 8:31 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: Perhaps you don't see a peep in this channel is because any discussion will instantly devolve into a scala fanboy fest? This post turned into one halfway throughout

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: No more podcasts?

2014-02-20 Thread Jess Holle
Understood -- though I'd second the request for keeping Roundup in the title where applicable, as I'm really only interested in listening to recordings of the regular podcast (though I might like to /attend/ the Roundup in person some year). On 2/20/2014 3:13 PM, Carl of the Posse wrote:

Re: [The Java Posse] Java Plugin Download site unavailable

2013-10-14 Thread Jess Holle
Did you try downloading the installer from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html and running it manually? On 10/13/2013 11:01 AM, Zentech Frank wrote: I've reached out to Oracle and have not received any response or support, so I thought that I'd try a Java group.

Re: [The Java Posse] Java 8 delayed...again

2013-04-19 Thread Jess Holle
and 3 (though 2 often means #1 occurred some time back when things were looking rosier). -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Java Posse group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to javaposse

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Parallelism for Java8

2013-02-26 Thread Jess Holle
Of course the good thing is -- once code is formulated in terms of lambda predicates, switching parallelism engines is a smaller matter. So if fork-join is full of it, use a different one. Sure, it will take a bit of a code change to avoid the default parallel streams, but nothing near what

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Tabs and spaces - I don't get it

2013-01-25 Thread Jess Holle
the least diligent developer. Whenever I see tabs in a source file I immediately eradicate them -- often letting the IDE reformat the whole file as it's often at a point that this is really the only way to achieve readability. -- Jess Holle On 1/25/2013 10:30 AM, Kirk Pepperdine wrote: +1

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Tabs and spaces - I don't get it

2013-01-25 Thread Jess Holle
. At that point you just do a separate commit for the reformatting and move on. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: [The Java Posse] Episode 404...

2013-01-23 Thread Jess Holle
While the US is often prone to stubbornly go its own way, I don't actually see that as a big part of the equation here. I think this is mostly about most folk in the US being unable to stomach the thought of changing to some weird new units that they're unfamiliar with. They live their lives

Re: [The Java Posse] Episode 404...

2013-01-23 Thread Jess Holle
On 1/23/2013 6:44 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:37:53 +0100, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com wrote: While the US is often prone to stubbornly go its own way, I don't actually see that as a big part of the equation here. I don't comment on the own way, since the important thing

Re: [The Java Posse] Episode 404...

2013-01-23 Thread Jess Holle
ancient (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal), tracing back to the Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC! Talk about your ancient, antiquated hill-billy unit systems. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Java Posse group. To post

Re: [The Java Posse] Episode 404...

2013-01-22 Thread Jess Holle
The politically correct term might be legacy units, though antiquated, medieval, pre-industrial, and byzantine all seem more accurate. I live in the US and am thus stuck with such units -- whatever one calls them. When in engineering school I found that a decent HP calculator made crazy

Re: [The Java Posse] Syntax for default methods and order of type parameters changes. Both to the worse?

2012-11-14 Thread Jess Holle
I like the default placement. The Mapper parameter bit just seems inexplicable, though. Principle of most surprise? On 11/14/2012 7:27 PM, Ricky Clarkson wrote: The rationale was to make default a modifier instead of even more special syntax than it needs to be. The parameter order isn't

Re: [The Java Posse] Returning Void

2012-10-15 Thread Jess Holle
Two words: ivory tower Retrofitting concepts into languages where there's little *real* benefit serves only to waste resources that could be better spent elsewhere -- and to risk breaking things, e.g. backward compatibility, that do have real, tangible benefit. We're in the real world,

Re: [The Java Posse] Dick's Apple vs Samsung comments

2012-09-04 Thread Jess Holle
Microsoft -- but worse in that with Microsoft you were always free to produce and market your app in their effective monopoly space (Windows) whereas Apple doesn't want you to have that much freedom. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [The Java Posse] Dick's Apple vs Samsung comments

2012-09-04 Thread Jess Holle
around for a good alternative first. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com

Re: [The Java Posse] Why is Oracle so slow?

2012-08-30 Thread Jess Holle
I too love to gripe about big corporations of all stripes, but... Just hold your horses just a bit longer here. On 8/30/2012 12:14 AM, Casper Bang wrote: Forget about spending a decade debating closures - I'm talking about patching security holes here! The last couple of years, Java has

Re: [The Java Posse] Why is Oracle so slow?

2012-08-30 Thread Jess Holle
Hmm I guess I'm slow here. I only heard about the latest vulnerability on 8/26 or so. I can't see anything indicating it was widely know prior to that. I'm missing where the 4 months comes from on the latest issue. Some vulnerabilities may have gone 4 months -- but some

Re: [The Java Posse] Why is Oracle so slow?

2012-08-30 Thread Jess Holle
Ah... I'd missed that article. Yes, that is rather reprehensible! [I'd assumed the flaw was either newly discovered or hadn't been privately known that long.] On 8/30/2012 8:37 AM, Casper Bang wrote: On Thursday, August 30, 2012 2:26:11 PM UTC+2, JessHolle wrote: Hmm I guess

Re: [The Java Posse] Opinions: How long to wait for Jigsaw?

2012-08-30 Thread Jess Holle
Realistically Jigsaw in no way facilitates removal of long-deprecated code. At *best* it would allow for deprecated *classes* to be moved to a separate, optional module. It can't do a thing about deprecated methods. Removing those would still utterly fragment the Java community. Personally

Re: [The Java Posse] Apple vs Samsung

2012-08-25 Thread Jess Holle
-- Jess Holle On 8/25/2012 6:09 AM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: Since when are laws concerning IP making much sense ? Since when is the law a synonym for justice ? That must be a long time ago now... Absurd yes - but it's Legal Absurdity. And therefore, if they don't comply to The Law, they're criminals

Re: [The Java Posse] Apple vs Samsung

2012-08-25 Thread Jess Holle
or to close off the ability to sell Java-based applications for them. -- Jess Holle On 8/25/2012 4:30 AM, Ricky Clarkson wrote: Oracle case: Can you write a library that provides compatibility with someone else's library? Samsung case: Can you copy your competitor's handling of finger-to-screen

Re: [The Java Posse] Groovy love

2012-07-30 Thread Jess Holle
There are issues. That said, most developers move on and get a lot done without being overly bothered. A few just seem to get stuck on every wart -- making mountains out of mole hills (or warts). On 7/30/2012 6:11 AM, fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: I definitely see a lot of

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-24 Thread Jess Holle
Along these lines I'd really like to know why the core of Jigsaw (a simple, language-level, integrated module system for developers) cannot be delivered in Java 8 and the rest of it (modularizing the JVM, integration with native packaging systems, etc) in Java 9. On 7/24/2012 3:22 AM, Jan

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-22 Thread Jess Holle
service wrapper!?!). Getting a simple all-in-one build-time and runtime module system integrated into the language, however, is key and /far/ more important. That piece should come in Java 8 -- without the rest of the less critical, and thus distracting, stuff. -- Jess Holle -- You received

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-21 Thread Jess Holle
? That's only important to allowing the Java SE codebase to be more readily re-used in other environments -- and /possibly/ will yield faster startup time (though a good refactoring could likely do that by itself). -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-21 Thread Jess Holle
of usages of external Java libraries, etc. In short, it wouldn't fly for a good number of large Java-based development organizations. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-20 Thread Jess Holle
community in such an insane fashion (or never move to a new version of the platform, but that's insane in its own right). -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-20 Thread Jess Holle
On 7/20/2012 2:42 PM, Kevin Wright wrote: Nothing wrong with a half-baked solution. Something can have definite value even if it's not complete. But without the ability to evolve the thing and change APIs under a different version number, it's too risky to release in such a state. No module

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-19 Thread Jess Holle
, then you're left torn between biting off the complexity of OSGi (it's certainly more complex than something integrated into the language, compiler, and JVM runtime) and putting modularity off until Oracle gets around to it someday in the hazy future (2017 after yet another delay?!?). -- Jess Holle

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-19 Thread Jess Holle
Agreed. A simple, unified, compile-time/runtime/language-level module system is all I really want from Jigsaw. Modularizing the JVM and (most silly of all) integrating with platform-specific deployment tools (e.g. rpm) are really uninteresting to me. I can see how they're all good things

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-19 Thread Jess Holle
such, for instance). -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-19 Thread Jess Holle
have versioned modules, just in case there are folk out there who actually still *want* some of that trash... On 19 July 2012 15:51, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com mailto:je...@ptc.com wrote: On 7/19/2012 9:38 AM, Kevin Wright wrote: The loss of Jigsaw is massive and significant. Having

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-19 Thread Jess Holle
on their catch-up features, Oracle is once again snubbing the community. On 19 July 2012 18:57, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com mailto:je...@ptc.com wrote: No, that's not an accurate paraphrase at all. I'll try again: * Fix and extend the language as appropriate o Wherever possible

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-19 Thread Jess Holle
inheritance model. On 7/19/2012 1:40 PM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: Why not just adding new default packages to replace java.lang al ? On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com mailto:je...@ptc.com wrote: Tweaking Javadoc and IDE support to hide cruft is simple and effective

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-19 Thread Jess Holle
. In reality Jigsaw is nothing more than a move crufty *classes* into a separate, optional module solution here. Changes within a class still require all the same API evolution considerations one had before. That's life in the real world. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you

Re: Fwd: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-19 Thread Jess Holle
can move at their own pace, however slow that may be, but it may also be a fast pace - in which case you'll no longer be held back by the demands of backward compatibility all the way to java 1.0 On Jul 19, 2012 8:20 PM, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com mailto:je...@ptc.com wrote: On 7/19/2012 2:09

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-19 Thread Jess Holle
to are particularly good at this sort of challenge, and *this* is the correct use of a decent tool - instead of simply hiding stuff. On 19 July 2012 21:13, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com mailto:je...@ptc.com wrote: To give some further insight: The enterprise application I work on has been

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Java End of Life Time

2012-02-13 Thread Jess Holle
. You end up either having to cut it loose (i.e. not support it) or it drags you down and holds you back. -- Jess Holle P.S. I suspect any bank that moves from Java 1.4.2 in the near future will move to Java 6 precisely because it is so old and proven at this point. There are 2 types

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Java End of Life Time

2012-02-13 Thread Jess Holle
), and they're definitely in the first camp, partly out of fear of not getting support when they need it. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com mailto:je...@ptc.com wrote: Is there any sort of an ETA / target release date for a stable Java 7 (including Java Plug-In!) for Mac

Re: [The Java Posse] Java 7 FUBAR'D?

2012-01-26 Thread Jess Holle
I believe the loop bug was fixed -- unofficially in Update 1 and officially in Update 2. I've noticed a few minor glitches in old UIs run under Java 7, but not investigated further, as it wasn't until Update 2 that I took Java 7 seriously. On 1/26/2012 5:26 AM, Steel City Phantom wrote:

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Addicted to Scala - I hate the Java Posse!

2011-12-20 Thread Jess Holle
. Sometimes, however, there's a place for a few engineers to write god code that is nicely tucked away and does what needs to be done and can't be done as well any way but AOP. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Addicted to Scala - I hate the Java Posse!

2011-12-20 Thread Jess Holle
(e.g. JVM internals). In general though I distrust and avoid AOP -- until it's really the only alternative. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Addicted to Scala - I hate the Java Posse!

2011-12-20 Thread Jess Holle
The closest thing I've found to a real-world usage for normal AOP was temporary debugger-like pointcuts via AspectJ. By normal I mean via AspectJ, XML, or the like. Targeted byte-code weaving via ASM is daunting, but truly useful in very limited cases. On 12/20/2011 5:28 PM, Kevin Wright

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Java One or Java ho-hum

2011-10-24 Thread Jess Holle
I had even worse issues last year. I couldn't find anything (apart from places with /really/ scary reviews) less than $400 or $500 per night. I'd never had such an issue with any previous Java One, having always managed to stay in the parc 55, francis drake, or other nice places. Even

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Fork/Join criticism

2011-10-21 Thread Jess Holle
The alternative to inheritance is general object composition -- which allows each of the objects to be strewn all of the heap with respect to one another. Inheritance, however, stuffs all the fields into 1 bucket that all moves together. Object fields are pointers to elsewhere in the heap

Re: [The Java Posse] Patent Wars reach new low - Microsoft and Nokia make desperate jackass move.

2011-09-02 Thread Jess Holle
As per the recent This American Life episode, some of the most famous patent trolling companies spin out shell companies [or sell the patent to another company working essentially as a subcontractor with a portion of all patent revenue going to each party] in cases to lessen their own

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-10 Thread Jess Holle
-nonsensical land grabs of vast conceptual spaces without any evidence of originality of thought. These should clearly be invalidated. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Java7 and loops - Before FUD gets out of hand...

2011-08-09 Thread Jess Holle
it open for more than an hour or so. Or that if you click on the wrong thing (the dreaded Data tab), you'll get an OutOfMemoryError as it tries to bring the entirety of the data table into memory -- without regard for how big the table is or how little memory you have... -- Jess Holle -- You

Re: [The Java Posse] Java7 and loops - Before FUD gets out of hand...

2011-08-03 Thread Jess Holle
incorrect results. Oracle had 5 days to change the default value of the optimization flag in question -- and I believe they should have done just that. If I wanted a JVM where I had to flip a bunch of knobs just to get it to run correctly I'd use IBM's JVM. -- Jess Holle [1

Re: [The Java Posse] JDK7 loop compilation bugs ?

2011-07-29 Thread Jess Holle
I really don't like that Oracle knew about this and released anyway (even if it were only hours prior to the release) -- without making -XX:-UseLoopPredicate the default. It's better not to release on time than to release something that customers don't trust. Having to add JVM options

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaDoc due for an overhaul

2011-06-21 Thread Jess Holle
Javadoc does seem really hard to make any reasonable use of without search for anything of size. A nice integration with Lucene/Solr would seem to be in order... On 6/21/2011 8:53 PM, phil swenson wrote: where's my search? ;) On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Steven

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: James Gosling vs. Java 1.4.2

2011-05-31 Thread Jess Holle
Hmm... No user benefits like greatly improved JVM performance between 1.4.2 and 1.6? On 5/30/2011 10:24 PM, Steven Herod wrote: The opposition to moving beyond 1.4.x would be mainly the cost. You have a working application which is stable, you are expending minimal effort maintaining, and

Re: [The Java Posse] Gavin King: A new language and SDK designed to replace Java in the enterprise

2011-04-14 Thread Jess Holle
-like stuff that I really had to work hard to mentally parse in large part because different things were so similar in syntax it took a lot of effort to figure out which one was being done by a particular chunk of code. Also := is a really annoying assignment operator... -- Jess Holle -- You

Re: [The Java Posse] Gavin King: A new language and SDK designed to replace Java in the enterprise

2011-04-13 Thread Jess Holle
if it was. Even so, I don't see why a half-baked, unfinished project that's been languishing for 2 years should jump ahead of Scala. -- Jess Holle On 4/13/2011 9:55 AM, Joseph Ottinger wrote: 2011/4/13 Cédric Beust ♔ced...@beust.com: Another thing that puzzles me about Ceylon is the timing: Gavin

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: McNealy says with Apple takeover, he would have 'screwed up' iphone and iPad

2011-02-28 Thread Jess Holle
as in Titanic. While the chip contained many interesting technologies, the whole added up to something that even the best compilers seemed to get very little real value from. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: #340: various comments

2011-02-14 Thread Jess Holle
Google missed an opportunity -- they should have bought the rights to call it the Dalek virtual machine (ala Doctor Who) :-) On 2/14/2011 1:03 PM, mezmo wrote: I stand corrected. Thanks! On Feb 14, 10:52 am, Cédric Beust ♔ced...@beust.com wrote: It's Dalvik, by the way (a small village in

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Mac vs. Java: Nothing to see here, move along: Eclipse and NetBeans run just fine on OpenJDK.

2010-10-29 Thread Jess Holle
This is simple: Apple figures that 1 of the 2 options is true. If 1, then they should kill it. If 2, then they shouldn't waste money on it. I don't see how Apple sees an upside to spending any money supporting Java on the Mac -- given that they want everything other than native,

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Mac vs. Java: Nothing to see here, move along: Eclipse and NetBeans run just fine on OpenJDK.

2010-10-27 Thread Jess Holle
Realistically, I think serious Java developers who use Macs are going to have to dual-boot into Windows or Linux -- at least if they're doing anything that's not strictly server-side. That's what every Mac owner wanted anyway, a really cute machine running Linux, right? :-| On 10/27/2010

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Microsoft cuts loose Iron languages

2010-10-24 Thread Jess Holle
products nor for as the foundation of large, mission-critical apps. -- Jess Holle On 10/24/2010 11:43 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: On 10/24/2010 04:17 AM, hugh4life wrote: On Oct 23, 6:48 pm, Miroslav Pokornymiroslav.poko...@gmail.com wrote: Funny a multi billion company like Microsoft cant afford

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Email from Jobs re Java on OS-X

2010-10-22 Thread Jess Holle
The Mac is becoming nothing but a big iPhone (without the phone or touch capabilities) for your desk. It's no longer a general computing platform -- it's becoming just another form factor for an utterly closed consumer device with a walled garden market. I don't think Apple wants Java on it

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Martin Odersky says: Skills required

2010-09-28 Thread Jess Holle
was in a financial bind for the last few years -- that would have been an honest answer to the plea for such assertions in Swing. It clearly must be done and must be done by the Swing team, though. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX script to be dropped, JavaFX 2.0 will be an API on the JVM, usable from Java

2010-09-23 Thread Jess Holle
My read on this answer was that you'd be best finding something else to spend your time on until around March/April 2011 -- at which point FX /may /be worth revisiting in an early access capacity. If that's at the top of your to-do list, then that's a pickle :-) -- Jess Holle On 9/23/2010

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX script to be dropped, JavaFX 2.0 will be an API on the JVM, usable from Java

2010-09-22 Thread Jess Holle
Sun? Who/where's Sun? There is no such creature now :-) On 9/22/2010 8:32 AM, Miroslav Pokorny wrote: By killing off JavaFX script this must be the first time Sun has ever made some source code of today uncompilable in the future. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX script to be dropped, JavaFX 2.0 will be an API on the JVM, usable from Java

2010-09-21 Thread Jess Holle
on no worse ground than SWT. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more

Re: [The Java Posse] Reinhold brought up the concept of a value keyword ?

2010-09-21 Thread Jess Holle
I thought it was supposed to be like Scala's case classes, but the info was actually quite sparse as to what these were. On 9/20/2010 10:43 PM, Serge Boulay wrote: and also here. I thought it might be properties until I saw that explicitly listed too. They also introduced the concept of

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX script to be dropped, JavaFX 2.0 will be an API on the JVM, usable from Java

2010-09-20 Thread Jess Holle
book). The rest of the Eclipse RCP might be nice -- but it's contaminated by SWT for those who want no part of SWT. -- Jess Holle On 9/20/2010 3:29 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: I think that all this move is going to accomplish is to push even more developers toward SWT/JFace/Eclipse RCP

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Scala vs. Groovy

2010-09-15 Thread Jess Holle
end up looking more like dozens of totally different languages. I don't have anything against Ruby as compared to other languages with these same issues -- but I consider both of these to be big issues. -- Jess Holle On 9/15/2010 8:30 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: You may be right

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Scala vs. Groovy

2010-09-15 Thread Jess Holle
. On 9/15/2010 9:34 AM, Jess Holle wrote: Existence outside the JVM is one possible dimension to the reluctance to use Ruby. For me the bigger issues with Ruby are: 1. The inability to do static typing * An ability to easily do dynamic typing where you want is one thing

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JDK 7 (as currently defined) delayed to mid 2012

2010-09-13 Thread Jess Holle
are Windows users that have just been sucked into the platform by circumstance, I really don't see native widgets as compelling for many apps. Something clear and reasonable is more than sufficient for me. Anything more is pretty -- but pretty meaningless -- eye candy. -- Jess Holle -- You received

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JDK 7 (as currently defined) delayed to mid 2012

2010-09-08 Thread Jess Holle
looks natural to... -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more

Re: [The Java Posse] Management: For now Java is no longer an option for new development

2010-08-31 Thread Jess Holle
are either not a small minority or are sufficiently vocal to upset the rest of the community, then I believe they'll adjust their approach (as little as they feel they can get away with, of course). -- Jess Holle On 8/31/2010 6:13 AM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: What about a little patience to see

Re: [The Java Posse] Management: For now Java is no longer an option for new development

2010-08-31 Thread Jess Holle
On 8/31/2010 6:52 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/31/10 13:28 , Jess Holle wrote: What about heavy pressure on Oracle via all possible venues so that they feel they need to establish a different tone in their JavaOne keynote? I don't think

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Management: For now Java is no longer an option for new development

2010-08-31 Thread Jess Holle
? No, but it beats having java.util and java.util2! -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr

Re: [The Java Posse] Erasure

2010-08-31 Thread Jess Holle
with such an approach could ostensibly still add it to Java N, though. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email

Re: [The Java Posse] Erasure

2010-08-31 Thread Jess Holle
Java like this is a *big* proposition though, as it would effectively require a breaking change in the language spec, sacrificing backwards compatibility. Allowing both declaration-site and call-site variance would be hideously complicated! On 31 August 2010 19:38, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com

Re: [The Java Posse] Google backs out of JavaOne

2010-08-29 Thread Jess Holle
a pronounced lack of direction from Sun, but Java 5 was certainly not irrelevant, for instance. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

Re: [The Java Posse] News from Oracle.

2010-08-18 Thread Jess Holle
. [Charging an arm-and-a-leg for long-in-the-tooth Java ME technology didn't really leave Google much choice.] -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com

Re: [The Java Posse] Dick's Crystal Ball: Oracle sues Google over Android. Facepalm!

2010-08-13 Thread Jess Holle
Sun essentially forced Google to either (1) take the path they did or (2) go another way entirely than Java by the combination of high pricing and lack of recent innovation on Java ME. I think Oracle should be rejoicing that Google took path #1 -- and trying to build bridges to make Android

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Dick's Crystal Ball: Oracle sues Google over Android. Facepalm!

2010-08-13 Thread Jess Holle
I suspect Oracle/Sun wants to mandate shipment of JavaFX with every Android device or some such. Clearly the platform is open enough that no one is stopping them for shipping JavaFX for it. On 8/13/2010 8:21 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Dick's Crystal Ball: Oracle sues Google over Android. Facepalm!

2010-08-13 Thread Jess Holle
as a don't you dare notice from Oracle. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Dick's Crystal Ball: Oracle sues Google over Android. Facepalm!

2010-08-13 Thread Jess Holle
On 8/13/2010 9:01 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/13/10 15:52 , Jess Holle wrote: I also think this is a broader shot across the bow for anyone who tries to ship something JVM-like without using an Oracle JVM, paying Oracle licensing, or basing

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Tab / Spaces anyone?

2010-07-01 Thread Jess Holle
bad apples to produce an utterly bad result. Thus in the real world with multiple real world programmers working on the code any use of tabs becomes intolerable. -- Jess Holle On 7/1/2010 8:03 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: In regards to the 'you can't mix and match' rule 3: Actually

Re: [The Java Posse] Episode #312 - NetBeans 6.9

2010-06-29 Thread Jess Holle
of this. It finds types all but instantaneously. NetBeans thinks for quite some time in many cases. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: NetBeans code completion for logging

2010-06-25 Thread Jess Holle
One of my pet peeves is that aspects of auto-completion do not obey your formatting rules... On 6/25/2010 5:36 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: What Wayne said - you can change the template in the settings. But few people do this, unfortunately. A setting should be set out-of-the-box to the most

[The Java Posse] Re: Project build with NetBeans or RAD

2010-06-22 Thread Jess Holle
?] Setting your own projects up to build with Maven is a separate learning curve and investment, though. -- Jess Holle On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:38, Peter Beckerpeter.becker...@gmail.com wrote: Maven might feel too complex or too limiting when you come from Ant, but once you see the tool

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Less IPhone

2010-06-18 Thread Jess Holle
Quality of software cannot be overrated. The utility of unit tests towards this end is often overrated, though. The interesting/nasty things happen when you put the units together. Testing the units (e.g. and mocking out the others) is over-emphasized as compared to testing that

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Less IPhone

2010-06-16 Thread Jess Holle
not like, it's got to be what's worth the time and effort for the guys who are actually doing all the work. It's got to be fun for you -- it's just that this *part* of the podcast has become less than fun for me. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [The Java Posse] Not only Java

2010-06-16 Thread Jess Holle
the question of pricing. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more

Re: [The Java Posse] Not only Java

2010-06-16 Thread Jess Holle
not a fan-boy for these either). I just don't think Oracle will pull this off. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Less IPhone

2010-06-15 Thread Jess Holle
. Android supports recent Java language features whereas ME does not). It fully deserves deep coverage as it is actually something one can deploy Java software to (albeit after a recompile). -- Jess Holle On 6/15/2010 8:36 AM, Rakesh wrote: The dilemma, as I see it, is that how can you talk

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Less IPhone

2010-06-15 Thread Jess Holle
I have no complaint with more focus on Scala and Android. The iPhone (1) doesn't allow anything like Java to even approach it and (2) [as I and many others I know see it] is an Orwellian scenario from a development marketplace perspective -- it's an attempt to lock developers into a

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Android beating iPhone in US

2010-05-13 Thread Jess Holle
Perhaps with enough loud developer moves like that noted in http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20004869-264.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 Apple will get the message that developers do not appreciate having their innovation stifled. On 5/11/2010 7:22 AM, Jess Holle wrote: On 5/11/2010 6:44

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: musings on Java inside Oracle

2010-05-13 Thread Jess Holle
Java within Oracle is a different beast than what you're used to in some ways. For instance, as I recall the classloaders are isolated to a transaction and so any classes used are reloaded in each transaction, which can really kill performance if you have a lot of classes to load to

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Android beating iPhone in US

2010-05-11 Thread Jess Holle
control until he feels a screaming /need/ to do so. Given the indirect relationship between developer (franchisee) rights and overall iPhone/iPad success, I'm not sure if/when he'll feel this need. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Android beating iPhone in US

2010-05-11 Thread Jess Holle
standpoint. Apple's clear willingness to dictate /how/ an application is developed stifles the diversity and innovation that would otherwise naturally be present. -- Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group

Re: [The Java Posse] Forcing gzip flush in Java

2010-04-27 Thread Jess Holle
, but the Tomcat patch is clearly more robust than that in the Sun/Oracle bug comments. -- Jess Holle On 4/26/2010 7:51 PM, James Ward wrote: I just ran into this a few weeks ago. Here is the associated Tomcat bug with a patch: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48738 -James

Re: [The Java Posse] Forcing gzip flush in Java

2010-04-26 Thread Jess Holle
it is invoked at the tail end of the output it adds that extra null byte and wreaks havoc. If you ran into this latter problem and your changes resolved the problem, then I'll have to look at your patch more closely. -- Jess Holle On 4/26/2010 7:51 PM, James Ward wrote: I just ran into this a few weeks

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