[The Java Posse] Re: Can you recommend a Java image manipulation library?

2010-01-25 Thread Martin Wildam
On Jan 23, 11:45 am, Phil p...@haigh-family.com wrote: I'm looking for a Java image manipulation library for a web site I'm currently redeveloping. I suspect my requirements are quite simple (for the library, which will probably do a lot more than what I want) but would appreciate any

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-04 Thread Martin Wildam
On Sep 3, 10:15 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot reini...@gmail.com wrote: That's what makes lombok so different, and that's perhaps why the lombok discussion group already has more posts in it inside of a month than kijaro's in its 2 years. You can actually use it, right now, on your day to day

[The Java Posse] Re: How do YOU handle Exceptions?

2009-08-23 Thread Martin Wildam
On Aug 23, 11:39 am, Reinier Zwitserloot reini...@gmail.com wrote: A full and exhaustive treatise doesn't exist, but there are a few rules almost everyone can agree with, and yet these rules are not followed by the JDK, probably because we didn't know any better back then. i.e.: [...]

[The Java Posse] Re: How do YOU handle Exceptions?

2009-08-22 Thread Martin Wildam
On Aug 21, 4:46 pm, B Smith-Mannschott bsmith.o...@gmail.com wrote: Checked exceptions *are* a failed experiment. My first experience and after reading Joel's post I was thinking that but previous posters convinced me that this is not necessarily true - but I think there lies some truth also in

[The Java Posse] Re: How do YOU handle Exceptions?

2009-08-21 Thread Martin Wildam
On Aug 21, 11:33 am, Peter Becker peter.becker...@gmail.com wrote: Number one clearly does not apply to checked exceptions, number two applies to returning values, too. Of course you could assign a value and follow the approach of having a single return statement at the end, but I never

[The Java Posse] Re: How do YOU handle Exceptions?

2009-08-21 Thread Martin Wildam
On Aug 21, 2:07 pm, Peter Becker peter.becker...@gmail.com wrote: I take the point that it is possible to make code harder to read using exceptions in a way that is not possible without. I must admit I didn't really think it through when I read Joel's blog post. I think the reduced

[The Java Posse] Re: How do YOU handle Exceptions?

2009-08-20 Thread Martin Wildam
Anyone a fan of this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2003/10/13.html I am. :-) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to

[The Java Posse] Re: How do YOU handle Exceptions?

2009-08-20 Thread Martin Wildam
On Aug 20, 4:13 pm, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: Exceptions cater well to OO, you can centralize error handling and dispatching via polymorphism as well as associate whatever context that's needed. I don't think (hope) many in here wants to go back to interpreting return values.

[The Java Posse] Re: Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-16 Thread Martin Wildam
On 16 Jul., 03:33, Neal Gafter neal.gaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 14, 7:37 am, Martin Wildam mwil...@gmail.com wrote: I thought again and again about this and my result is: No matter how often they meet and how many these experts are. There is no guarantee that they will do a good job

[The Java Posse] Re: Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-16 Thread Martin Wildam
On 16 Jul., 03:33, Neal Gafter neal.gaf...@gmail.com wrote: But the evidence so far is that Microsoft does a better job with the C# language than the community does with Java.  The benevolent dictator model does seem to produce better languages. Your particular opinion in this might have been

[The Java Posse] Re: Rethinking persistence

2009-07-16 Thread Martin Wildam
On 16 Jul., 12:43, Steven Herod steven.he...@gmail.com wrote: XML would be the 'modern' equivalent. To do it in a relational database with Java would involve a lot more work and a lot less flexibility. I am working in DMS and ECM field and here there is a wave of products using alternatives

[The Java Posse] Re: Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-14 Thread Martin Wildam
On 11 Jul., 23:53, Martin Wildam mwil...@gmail.com wrote: on the Microsoft side it's more top-down. In Redmond, there's an interesting arsenal of experts (Hejlsberg, Meijer, Hugunin etc.) who have been meeting in a room 3 days a week for the last decade, who try to find ways for us

[The Java Posse] Re: JSF (Java Server Faces)

2009-07-13 Thread Martin Wildam
As the newcomer I did not make a final decision regarding the web framework of my choice. From the distance it seems to me that JSF has somehow the best tools for building the GUI - at least the NetBeans integration. Unfortunately I do not hear and see a lot of GUI building tool integration for

[The Java Posse] Re: Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-11 Thread Martin Wildam
On Jul 9, 2:10 pm, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: As already pointed out in this thread, the innovation in the Java space tends to be more button-up driven while on the Microsoft side it's more top-down. In Redmond, there's an interesting arsenal of experts (Hejlsberg, Meijer,

[The Java Posse] Re: Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-09 Thread Martin Wildam
On 8 Jul., 14:08, Michael Kimsal mgkim...@gmail.com wrote: I'd prefer more people spend their time making decisions about business-level or application-level issues, rather than language or framework issues. In the MS world, it *can* be much easier to focus on those issues regardless of your

[The Java Posse] Re: Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-09 Thread Martin Wildam
...oh, my post was sooo long - sorry guys, but there is much on my mind. ;-) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 To

[The Java Posse] Re: Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-08 Thread Martin Wildam
On 6 Jul., 13:16, kirk kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote: it is coming in 7.0. Although it's common to want to switch on strings IMHO its an indication that you want behavior in your strings which is not String like so using a String isn't what you really want to be using. I was used using

[The Java Posse] Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-06 Thread Martin Wildam
In several podcasts the future of the Java language is discussed. People look at new(er) languages like Scala, Ruby, Groovy etc. And people argue that the Java language is not moving forward. I am in software development about 25 years and learned about 12 languages so far. I developed with RAD

[The Java Posse] Re: Running external executable from within java code

2009-06-22 Thread Martin Wildam
Use False for waitForEnd then it should be an asynchroneous launch - at least for me under Windows (should try at home on Linux ;-) ): codepublic static int runProcess(String commandLine, boolean waitForEnd, StringBuilder output) { int rc = 0; boolean b = true; boolean

[The Java Posse] Re: Running external executable from within java code

2009-06-22 Thread Martin Wildam
Use false for waitForEnd to have an asynchroneous launch: public static int runProcess(String commandLine, boolean waitForEnd, StringBuilder output) { int rc = 0; boolean b = true; boolean r = true; Process prc = null; BufferedReader comeIn = null;