[The Java Posse] Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Jess Holle
. The jury won't weigh in on this for a while yet -- it still hasn't for Android after all. -- 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

[The Java Posse] Re: the anti-helper class meme

2008-09-24 Thread Jess Holle
better, more flexible tools exist. -- Jess Holle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, if I'm getting to use Groovy/Ruby for writing tests, metaprogramming features do allow me to mock static methods. Interesting... do you have a code snippet that demonstrates

[The Java Posse] Re: Ep 208 and the road to java.next

2008-10-10 Thread Jess Holle
inferring when the right hand side is a literal or a constructor, e.g: final foo = x; final bar = new Whatever(); On Oct 10, 9:17 pm, Jess Holle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allowing final foo = someMethodCall(); encourages these downsides to be propagated throughout dozens and dozens

[The Java Posse] Re: Ep 208 and the road to java.next

2008-10-12 Thread Jess Holle
. There are restrictions on when, but changing those vs. working with them is a JVM spec change, not a source rewrite or even JVM implementation issue. -- Jess Holle 1) Remove checked exceptions Why: Loiters the code without actually adding anything 2) Add type aliases Why: To avoid

[The Java Posse] Re: Ep 208 and the road to java.next

2008-10-13 Thread Jess Holle
, Jython, Fortress, etc, all avoid this dimension of change -- they suggest changes they'd like but work around the lack thereof for now so as to be more accepted tools for now. -- Jess Holle Viktor Klang wrote: Reinier, my point (although somewhat between the lines) was that doing things

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 6 Update 10 Shipped?

2008-10-20 Thread Jess Holle
possibly give developers any clue as to what to expect from them -- such consideration is not part of Apple's style. -- Jess Holle Neil Bartlett wrote: Bear in mind that relying on new features in the latest Java release (such as draggable applets) will mean Mac OS users won't be able to use your

[The Java Posse] Re: A lenient compiler?

2008-10-23 Thread Jess Holle
the compiler help me get it right (for all compilers) the first time -- and can wait for the spec to be improved. -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group

[The Java Posse] Re: Have we given up on the idea of code reuse?

2008-10-24 Thread Jess Holle
figure out how to put them all together). -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group

[The Java Posse] Re: A lenient compiler?

2008-10-24 Thread Jess Holle
So I guess that should mean a compile all possible classes compiler more than a lenient compiler. In a CI environment you might have 100's of modified sources. If some fail to compile, you'd like to ensure that (1) all other possible sources are compiled [javac will simply stop trying at some

[The Java Posse] Re: A lenient compiler?

2008-10-24 Thread Jess Holle
Hmmm I guess I see no need to go down that path. Jim Blackler wrote: Well it may be possible to compile most of a class, for instance if I introduce a field with an invalid type. Only at the moment that something tried to use that type would an exception be thrown. 2008/10/24 Jess Holle

[The Java Posse] Re: Influential Java programmers should learn C#

2008-11-04 Thread Jess Holle
, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Jess Holle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Ryan wrote: @Weiqi Do you like using Introspector? ;) Okay it might be a tongue in cheek question, but I'd still much prefer being able to do foo.getDeclaredProperties() and have a PropertyDescriptor array returned without

[The Java Posse] Re: Influential Java programmers should learn C#

2008-11-04 Thread Jess Holle
the means of attaining them are not the same syntactic sugar you see in another language does not mean that (a) they're not there and (b) that they're not usable. -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[The Java Posse] Re: episode 215: reflection and generics

2008-11-04 Thread Jess Holle
() utility so that one could do things like new T[] in sort -- throwing a runtime exception if the typing info is not present. This would be undoing erasure without blowing new/old code interoperability except where actually necessary. -- Jess Holle Christian Catchpole wrote: Here is my

[The Java Posse] Re: #215 Traits

2008-11-04 Thread Jess Holle
then be mapped as appropriate as part of implementing the trait interface. -- Jess Holle Mark Derricutt wrote: Please please please bring on traits! I'm somewhat on the fence of rather seeing traits than closures in java sooner than the other. I'm finding LOTS of places in my code where traits

[The Java Posse] Re: #215 Traits

2008-11-05 Thread Jess Holle
Jess Holle wrote: One could call such interfaces traits instead with a new keyword or such. I don't really see /any/ benefit from this, though. I'd have full blown no-holds-barred multiple inheritence, but it's too late for that for Java. I have /no/ fear or loathing of diamond

[The Java Posse] Re: episode 215: reflection and generics

2008-11-05 Thread Jess Holle
) breaking of existing Class contracts, explicit or implicit, (2) resulting in duplication of Class objects or other bloat, or (3) breaking interoperability between new and old code. -- Jess Holle On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Jess Holle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: getTypeParameters() will tell

[The Java Posse] Re: #215 Traits

2008-11-05 Thread Jess Holle
doesn't like it you can still offer them ways to avoid it (PMD if must, compiler-option if wanted). I don't see how adding multiple inheritance would be worse than adding implementations to interfaces. Peter On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Jess Holle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One could

[The Java Posse] Re: #215 Traits

2008-11-05 Thread Jess Holle
-- and anything below that in the hierarchy inherits these ambiguity resolutions. [At least in any reasonable proposal I've seen.] In that sense things are not flat. -- Jess Holle Therefore with Traits the rule is, if ambiguous it is an error that must be resolved explicitly by the programmer

[The Java Posse] Re: episode 215: reflection and generics

2008-11-05 Thread Jess Holle
to store the type parameters on each object, which is probably much more expensive in total. The former approach seems to also match the type model better. Yes, I was thinking something along the lines of the former. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Jess Holle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter

[The Java Posse] Re: java rebel and glassfish v3

2008-11-06 Thread Jess Holle
Terracotta does not cover all platforms :-( Viktor Klang wrote: It's rather easy to run Terracotta Session replication and have this feature for free. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine alexis.mp http://alexis.mp@gmail.com http://gmail.com wrote: Active

[The Java Posse] Re: episode 215: reflection and generics

2008-11-06 Thread Jess Holle
Viktor Klang wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Jess Holle [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Viktor Klang wrote: Actually guys, referential equality is kind of retarded, so the MapString,Integer.class == MapFoo,Bar.class example is bad. However

[The Java Posse] Re: episode 215: reflection and generics

2008-11-06 Thread Jess Holle
== and .equals MUST give the same results for Class objects -- else loads of things break. The ConcreteClass noted below would not be a Class -- it would be a new API. -- Jess Holle On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Jess Holle [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Becker wrote

[The Java Posse] Re: #215 Traits

2008-11-06 Thread Jess Holle
There are big limitations imposed by dynamic proxies here as I see it. Dynamic proxies are beautiful interceptors for one or more interfaces, but they themselves are of a synthetic class. If you have a class A and you want to mix-in/apply an interface to it, dynamic proxies could help wire a

[The Java Posse] Re: NetBeans... nice!

2008-11-12 Thread Jess Holle
this irrelevant, subjective cruft. -- Jess Holle P.S. I did loads of development on green or orange screened dumb terminals in college. By comparison to this modern IDEs and modern screen sizes are a miraculous improvement and thus I generally can't complain about them on the basis of look

[The Java Posse] Re: NetBeans... nice!

2008-11-13 Thread Jess Holle
I know another NetBeans user who wants off-white / light grey rather than white backgrounds. He uses the jvi plug-in and uses a light grey background for it, but the rest of the panels are not so easily changed, which is a source of annoyance for him. -- Jess Holle ??(milan) wrote: yes you

[The Java Posse] Re: 64bit Linux and Java

2008-11-16 Thread Jess Holle
around by other JVM vendors. * While I understand Sun's stance here, the 32 vs. 64-bit tradeoffs are most severe for the Sun JVMs right now to the best of my knowledge. -- Jess Holle Joshua Marinacci wrote: Absolutely. And for many programs this is awesome

[The Java Posse] Re: 64bit Linux and Java

2008-11-17 Thread Jess Holle
Yes, clearly the new plug-in technology helps clear the way. The small in-process bridge still needs to be delivered in 32 and 64-bit forms, though, which I assume is what's causing this feature to be delayed until Update 12 rather than just being part of Update 10. -- Jess Holle Joshua

[The Java Posse] Re: Ep #217: Licensing

2008-11-19 Thread Jess Holle
whether it is GPL'ed. I don't care too much about particulars beyond this -- BSD, Apache License 2.0, etc, even LGPL, are all free, unrestricted for commercial use licenses. Stating the actual license used is probably faster than any other way of spelling this out, though. -- Jess Holle

[The Java Posse] Re: Ep #217: Licensing

2008-11-20 Thread Jess Holle
If the Posse can spend the time gathering the this one word or TLA (three-letter-acronym), then this little bit of alphabet soup can help some of us a lot. Peter Becker wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Vince O'Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 19, 7:14 am, Reinier

[The Java Posse] Re: Reflexivity

2008-11-23 Thread Jess Holle
I believe that in context of the discussion Dick really meant to say commutative, not associative, transitive, reflexive, or any other such term. -- Jess Holle Peter Becker wrote: Hi Dick, the math guy in me just has to comment on your comments on transitivity/reflexivity in #218 ;-) You

[The Java Posse] Re: What would you like to know about JavaFX

2008-11-25 Thread Jess Holle
://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6578753, 4330950 http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4330950, etc. There are plenty of nasty desktop Java bugs (and HTTP(S) client issues) outside the top 25 as well. That's it for now. -- Jess Holle

[The Java Posse] Re: What would you like to know about JavaFX

2008-12-01 Thread Jess Holle
of JavaFX per se -- there's a time and a place for everything, but conversely there's a time and a place for plain 'ole Java and it wouldn't seem right to be forced into JavaFX for many of these things. You'd expect to be able to just call some well-documented Java APIs.] -- Jess Holle

[The Java Posse] Re: What would you like to know about JavaFX

2008-12-01 Thread Jess Holle
Oh... I almost forgot. What's the estimated time of release of the integrated 2/3D scene graph for JavaFX? -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post

[The Java Posse] Re: Episode 220 - Already Up...

2008-12-04 Thread Jess Holle
a huge number of existing Java users mad and have trouble getting such contentious language features through a design-by-committee JSR process. -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java

[The Java Posse] Re: Episode 220 - Already Up...

2008-12-04 Thread Jess Holle
Jess Holle wrote: Casper Bang wrote: Sorry guys, but I just don't buy that JavaFX had no negative effect on JSR's and JSE development. Could we drop the feel-good spin for a moment and consider the evidence: - Some JSR's are as good as abandoned, i.e. JSR-296 where the spec lead (before

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX: Impressions?

2008-12-04 Thread Jess Holle
I'm glad to hear this is a server issue. That said, what a way to start off on the wrong foot! You'd think Sun (being a hardware company) would err on the side of throwing /too much/ at the problem given the criticality of a smooth and sexy release. -- Jess Holle Joshua Marinacci wrote: We

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX: Impressions?

2008-12-04 Thread Jess Holle
Most critically for FX would seem to be the fix for D3D acceleration issues on some specific Nvidia board models. sherod wrote: .It came out 2 days ago and is a bug fix issue mainly. On Dec 5, 9:53 am, Matt Scully [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . but when did 6u11 come out? Was that released

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 7 features - NO CLOSURES!

2008-12-11 Thread Jess Holle
better things to do than chase every shiny new kitchen sink :-) Now traits on the other hand... Traits would be really nice to add (if done right -- as always the devil is in the details). -- Jess Holle On Dec 12, 5:02 am, Hairless_ape gantra...@gmail.com wrote: What the hell

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 7 features - NO CLOSURES!

2008-12-11 Thread Jess Holle
Christian Catchpole wrote: On Dec 12, 5:33 am, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com wrote: Overall conservative language evolution does not equal language death. Some of us have better things to do than chase every shiny new kitchen sink :-) Maybe you are right, but it's such a waste

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 7 features - NO CLOSURES!

2008-12-11 Thread Jess Holle
not come up often and isn't /that/ painful either. Not being able to pass generics to the existing mountains of non-generic aware code -- /that /would be excruciating for my work. I'd probably still be unable to make any practical use of generics without erasure doing its thing. -- Jess

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 7 features - NO CLOSURES!

2008-12-11 Thread Jess Holle
T[], and the like are all examples where this actually hits you -- and generally it is easy to workaround -- albeit while getting a clear sense that you shouldn't have to. Jess Holle wrote: Generics are really so painful? Really? I use them a /lot/. While having to pass ClassT in classes

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 7 features - NO CLOSURES!

2008-12-12 Thread Jess Holle
and hundreds of third party libraries that have grown over the past decade that all needs to talk together -- and still need Java to move forward, just without marooning all of this or creating new and old ghettos. -- Jess Holle Frederic Simon wrote: What Alex Buckley said on Java7 BOF

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 7 features - NO CLOSURES!

2008-12-12 Thread Jess Holle
be ignored unless you run into code using it phase. -- Jess Holle On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com mailto:casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: I agree, but that's obviously not the way it's ever done in Java, considering we still have to use Vector from time to time

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 7 features - NO CLOSURES!

2008-12-12 Thread Jess Holle
Jess Holle wrote: Frederic Simon wrote: About considering we still have to use Vector from time to time: I asked Mark if he will put them in a dirty old Java module that can be excluded in a profile. Basically, have clean new Java list of modules as a base, and then add dirty old Java

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-18 Thread Jess Holle
include Perl and C++. From what I've seen Ruby, Scala, and C# also fall into this category -- to differing degrees. -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-18 Thread Jess Holle
peter wrote: On Dec 18, 9:46 am, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com wrote: peter wrote: As for the usual complexity claim: you can write easy-to-ready code in scala (our 'big novelty' was to come up with coding guidelines), just as you can write ugly code in scala. Note though, the same

[The Java Posse] Re: Java Posse #224 (On a lack of JDK 7)

2009-01-05 Thread Jess Holle
into the picture. -- Jess Holle Joshua Marinacci wrote: Absolutely. In any normal time 6u10 would really be a full new release of Java. However, that would require even more overhead and time due to the complexities of putting out a new release with new API. We specifically designed 6u10

[The Java Posse] Re: Writing my own language on the JVM

2009-01-06 Thread Jess Holle
Kram wrote: For a while now, I've been wanting to get my hands dirty on Java and the JVM, by this is mean getting to know bytecode, and how compilers work, JIT, the JVM in general, etc... So the best thing I figure to do is to write my own, very basic, language for the JVM. Even if it

[The Java Posse] Re: Rebuttal of groovy popularity assessment (episode #224)

2009-01-07 Thread Jess Holle
I keep hearing that Groovy performance is hideous. Is this just FUD? Paul Wallace wrote: For me Groovy/Grails was the best discovery of 2008, and I can see a place for the combo in the Enterprise world - initially Groovy for scripting/testing. Regarding the low profile, perhaps

[The Java Posse] Re: #225 - Wish list for Java 8 and 9

2009-01-12 Thread Jess Holle
you just never load if you don't use it. Ideally Javadoc gets updated to hide such cruft by default as well. Then you get the best of both worlds -- nothing breaks, but you don't have to pay for cruft in any real sense. -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[The Java Posse] Re: Length of episodes

2009-01-29 Thread Jess Holle
and are free to blabber on as they see fit. -- Jess Holle Ed G wrote: How about offering a speeded-up version for those who like the amount of information but want to do it quicker? A 10% or 20% speedup would not be very noticeable (not like chipmunks at all!) and would save that much time. After

[The Java Posse] Re: Java language stagnation and lack of resources

2009-01-29 Thread Jess Holle
to the simplifications it allows in the software architecture. -- 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 To unsubscribe

[The Java Posse] Re: netbeans: FAIL.

2009-01-30 Thread Jess Holle
as they want to do serious perusal of OpenJDK, NetBeans, or OpenSolaris sources. [I think Sun bet on the wrong horse and should drop Mercurical for Git as well, but that's another matter.] -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

[The Java Posse] Re: Java language stagnation and lack of resources

2009-02-08 Thread Jess Holle
with the - notation (like Fan does), but being realistic that's not doing to happen. On Feb 8, 11:11 am, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com wrote: My thinking is that when you combine Java's lowercase field and property naming conventions with use of the existing . notation for properties you cause confusion

[The Java Posse] Re: Java ME vs. Java 5

2009-02-17 Thread Jess Holle
, this does mean you amongst others) should be on Java 5 or higher -- except, of course, that Sun gives the J2ME world no choice, thus forcing part of the Java community to live in the past and making it harder for all of us to move forward together. -- Jess Holle

[The Java Posse] Re: Java ME vs. Java 5

2009-02-17 Thread Jess Holle
a 'devolving compiler' will downgrade to whatever works on J2ME, and if it detects usage of API or features that just cannot be downgraded, an error with a useful message would result. Just saying its somewhat harder than it might seem. On Feb 17, 2:38 pm, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com wrote: Brian

[The Java Posse] Re: Groovy Love? (or no news in Posse #231 about Groovy 1.6)

2009-02-20 Thread Jess Holle
We've found that Groovy 1.6 eats up all the memory in sight for our use cases (Groovy within complex Ant scripts), whereas 1.5.x does not. So for us there's no Groovy 1.6 love at all -- it is completely unusable. -- Jess Holle hayden.paul.jo...@gmail.com wrote: I was surprised

[The Java Posse] Re: IBM in talks to buy Sun?

2009-03-18 Thread Jess Holle
most everyone else in implementing and supporting new Java versions (and new J2EE versions and so on). It is thus hard to see them pushing Java's evolution anywhere nearly as fast as Sun does -- despite all the stones thrown at Sun in this category. -- Jess Holle Steven Herod wrote: http

[The Java Posse] Re: IBM in talks to buy Sun?

2009-03-18 Thread Jess Holle
apart from having source to Sun's JVM, I've much preferred its behavior and reliability. -- 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

[The Java Posse] Re: IBM in talks to buy Sun?

2009-03-18 Thread Jess Holle
If Microsoft bought Java it would be an unambiguous call to action for the Java community to take full ownership of their own OpenJDK fork. IBM could likely successfully waffle such that OpenJDK is effectively killed or crippled by a combination of their inactivity /and/ the community's -- as

[The Java Posse] Re: IBM in talks to buy Sun?

2009-03-19 Thread Jess Holle
consultants or the source code. -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[The Java Posse] Re: IBM in talks to buy Sun?

2009-03-19 Thread Jess Holle
I'm sure Sun execs told employees it was a focus thing and told them to be focused. Meanwhile they focused on selling the farm... Joe Data wrote: On Mar 18, 6:56 am, Steven Herod steven.he...@gmail.com wrote: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html Personally, it's

[The Java Posse] Re: IBM in talks to buy Sun?

2009-03-19 Thread Jess Holle
DB2's rear :-) [DB2 is no 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 javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group

[The Java Posse] ThreadPoolExecutor core threads, max threads, and unbounded queues

2009-04-03 Thread Jess Holle
ThreadPoolExecutor to behave reasonable? [Yes, allowCoreThreadTimeOut() helps, but it really isn't enough...] -- 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

[The Java Posse] Re: ThreadPoolExecutor core threads, max threads, and unbounded queues

2009-04-04 Thread Jess Holle
they are over-engineering the solution. I'm not saying you are doing that in this case.. My 2 cents. Again, recently I wrote a comms pool which I know will never fall over (of its own volition). CC On Apr 4, 2:20 pm, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com wrote: I was naively and happily using

[The Java Posse] Re: Issue #239: Java 7 versus JDK 7 versus OpenJDK

2009-04-07 Thread Jess Holle
restrictions would be different or change -- and then changed their mind. If so, that's unfortunate, but I can understand how Sun would change their mind if they made this mistake. -- Jess Holle P.S. I've encountered incompatibilities in J9 code adopted from Harmony that were less than pleasant

[The Java Posse] Re: Issue #239: Java 7 versus JDK 7 versus OpenJDK

2009-04-07 Thread Jess Holle
with J9 would tend to suggest that the TCK is indeed too weak. Here Sun's finances do again become relevant -- they can't afford massive investment in the TCK or Java specification to add sufficient teeth to ensure compatibility if sufficient teeth are not already present. -- Jess Holle

[The Java Posse] Re: Java coming to Google App Engine

2009-04-15 Thread Jess Holle
? Overall I'm just mystified as to what motivated them to cripple their app engine -- at least to a degree. [I've seen their whitelist of Java classes, but I've not seen their blacklist, so it is unclear what's all missing from a glance.] -- Jess Holle Casper Bang wrote: On 15 Apr., 15:30

[The Java Posse] Re: Oracle to buy Sun MS

2009-04-22 Thread Jess Holle
for many companies and their customers. This is clearly evident in most of the big enterprise players -- IBM, Oracle, Sun, etc, etc -- and their customers. It is possible to innovate without burning compatibility -- it's just another design constraint. -- Jess Holle

[The Java Posse] Re: Noro Virus on JavaOne 2008, Swine Flu on JavaOne 2009?

2009-04-29 Thread Jess Holle
of the last flu pandemic. There's reason to worry, but there's no clear reason to worry that much about *this* outbreak -- unless your immune system is already on shaky ground or you have no access to good health care. -- Jess Holle Joshua Marinacci wrote: When *treated* the flu annoying rather

[The Java Posse] Re: Noro Virus on JavaOne 2008, Swine Flu on JavaOne 2009?

2009-04-29 Thread Jess Holle
swine flu outbreak isn't it. On Apr 29, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Jess Holle wrote: True enough -- for most flus. Health officials are quite worried of something like the last flu pandemic, though -- in that it caused healthy people's immune systems to go into overdrive and hit the young healthy adults

[The Java Posse] Re: Noro Virus on JavaOne 2008, Swine Flu on JavaOne 2009?

2009-04-29 Thread Jess Holle
to the developed world largely forgetting about the huge numbers of people dying from malaria every year. -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send

[The Java Posse] Re: Noro Virus on JavaOne 2008, Swine Flu on JavaOne 2009?

2009-04-29 Thread Jess Holle
. Fully agreed on that point. You could worry about earthquakes, asteroid impacts, etc, as well if you're going to worry about this. It's not worth the worry. -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[The Java Posse] Re: DB2 is nowhere?

2009-05-01 Thread Jess Holle
Put another way, is DB2 anywhere that's not either (1) still stuck on mainframes or (2) so true-blue IBM that they're IBM thru-and-thru? Considering some of the issues with it as compared to something like Oracle, I'd be surprised. -- Jess Holle Carl Quinn wrote: We stand corrected. I'll

[The Java Posse] Re: DB2 is nowhere?

2009-05-01 Thread Jess Holle
on anything other than IBM servers. I am curious on some of the issues though. I have never used Oracle so I can't compare the two, but I am curious as to what problems there are with DB2. -- James R. Perkins On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:22, Jess Holle je...@ptc.com mailto:je...@ptc.com wrote

[The Java Posse] Re: DB2 is nowhere?

2009-05-04 Thread Jess Holle
Having all eggs in one basket is a double-edged sword... -- Jess Holle Donald Bell wrote: On May 2, 7:19 am, IngoF ingo.frei...@googlemail.com wrote: In the end they have a chain starting with the IBM mainframe right down to the individual developer workplace running Rational Application

[The Java Posse] Re: NetBeans -- It's dead, right?

2009-05-05 Thread Jess Holle
and critical Java IDE functionality. -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - great idea, bad implementation

2009-05-06 Thread Jess Holle
Or is this simply a matter of it's too weird and dissimilar to anything I have background in? Be honest -- I don't mean the latter as a slam. For instance, I'll admit that I find Scala far too weird and dissimilar to anything I'm used to. While I like the ideas behind Scala, the actual

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - great idea, bad implementation

2009-05-06 Thread Jess Holle
But doesn't it work fine on both platforms except for some video codecs, etc? That says nothing about the overall technology set but rather about the lack of portability of a handful of bits. Paul Hardin wrote: As a Java developer it does strike me that there is something deeply wrong with

[The Java Posse] Re: Java as API language, its days numbered?

2009-05-07 Thread Jess Holle
a horde of creative, undisciplined developers loose and watch it happen. -- 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

[The Java Posse] Re: NetBeans -- It's dead, right?

2009-05-07 Thread Jess Holle
function without using GPL'd NetBeans code. The classpathexception is rather clear on this. Compiling against NetBeans libraries is not restricted by GPL in this case. Recompiling/rebuilding existing portions of NetBeans is. -- Jess Holle

[The Java Posse] Re: Why don't people use Java 6 in production? Maybe this is why...

2009-05-11 Thread Jess Holle
Outside of Grizzly, which is based on NIO, of course, I think many folk have avoided NIO entirely due to various items like this. -- Jess Holle John Wright wrote: We've been using it in a production environment for 2 years with no issues. Its much faster and very stable. We've used

[The Java Posse] Re: Enough with the whip noises

2009-05-12 Thread Jess Holle
Any silly bit is fine by me -- as long as the Posse does not get so lost in doing it that it takes them a long time to actually get to discussing anything. That occasionally accidentally happens, but that's life. Otherwise silliness and the theme song are the only things that makes my son not

[The Java Posse] Re: Sun (Oracle) needs to take over dev of Java on Mac (security vulnerability)

2009-05-21 Thread Jess Holle
enough that other parties don't necessarily step in to tackle various problems in the space at all. -- Jess Holle P.S. I'd sooner see Sun do a Java for AIX so I wouldn't have to deal with IBM's JVM than see them do a Java for the Mac. If Sun had infinite money, it would be great to see them do

[The Java Posse] Re: Palm PRE has Java

2009-06-13 Thread Jess Holle
APIs throughout. ME is thus a death knell for write once run anywhere. Sure, ME is meant to be a smaller subset of APIs, etc, but using an antiquated version of the language means nothing modern from SE can just run on ME. How's that for splintering the community? -- Jess Holle Viktor

[The Java Posse] Re: Palm PRE has Java

2009-06-13 Thread Jess Holle
with FX, but the ME runtime is still broken in this respect and still a problem to the degree to which ends up doing any Java on it. Fabrizio Giudici wrote: Jess Holle wrote: Well JavaFX can run on top of Java ME, right? And there are unofficial (non-Google) ME adapters for Android, so

[The Java Posse] Re: Palm PRE has Java

2009-06-13 Thread Jess Holle
Fabrizio Giudici wrote: Jess Holle wrote: FX is an end-run around the ME fragmentation issue to a point. I say to a point in that there would appear to be times where you really need/want to duck into a Java library for part of the application's back-end. Thus FX lessens the extent

[The Java Posse] Re: My notes about project Jigsaw from JavaOne

2009-06-22 Thread Jess Holle
sense. There are other things that really gave me pause (e.g. the emphasis on native packaging to the exclusion of cross-platform portable packaging approaches!!!), but by-passing OSGi seems like a non-issue. -- Jess Holle P.S. I'd contrast this with by-passing log4j, for instance, where log4j

[The Java Posse] Re: My notes about project Jigsaw from JavaOne

2009-06-22 Thread Jess Holle
disagree with the decision. -- Jess Holle Eric Newcomer wrote: Yes, that's what they keep saying. I'm sure they mean that they speak when they see each other in the hallways at Java One, or after a presentation. Or something like that. But there is no participation in any OSGi expert group

[The Java Posse] Google - missing the point?

2009-06-27 Thread Jess Holle
in ME and no plans whatsoever to add these! On the other hand, Google went a lot further to develop their own set of client libraries rather than using any existing client libraries -- and thus is creating another splinter UI platform space like SWT did before it. -- Jess Holle

[The Java Posse] Re: more jigsaw vs osgi vs javaposse

2009-06-28 Thread Jess Holle
be another (almost certainly simpler) solution to part of the problem space in the future. I certainly do understand concerns about how OSGi and Jigsaw are /really /going to work together, though. -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[The Java Posse] Re: Google - missing the point?

2009-06-28 Thread Jess Holle
in getting you around this -- until you hit the wall. Java and JavaFX are far more attractive in this regard. -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group

[The Java Posse] Re: more jigsaw vs osgi vs javaposse

2009-06-28 Thread Jess Holle
of that component instead of moving to the new version, in which case it is time to upgrade. -- Jess Holle P.S. If you mean multiple versions just for things like a web app reload, that's a different matter entirely, of course. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

[The Java Posse] Re: What would make you switch to a new language?

2009-06-29 Thread Jess Holle
/ configuration should be bound in with annotations and that configuration files should then be used to override this as needed. That's the best of both worlds. -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[The Java Posse] Re: Google isn't the one missing the point

2009-06-29 Thread Jess Holle
. Wikipedia on the other. Google's not evil here, but clearly what's best for them isn't necessarily best for everyone (not even everyone but their competitors). -- Jess Holle ctwise wrote: Google wants very much for everything to move to HTML. They don't want Flash. They don't want

[The Java Posse] Re: more jigsaw vs osgi vs javaposse

2009-06-29 Thread Jess Holle
I believe SWT was a great kick in Sun's pants to get them to fix Swing, etc. Now that it has done that I believe it has *no* reason to exist and is a essentially the single reason I'd never choose to use the Eclipse RCP. -- Jess Holle Lhasadad wrote: If it wasn't for the pressure of something

[The Java Posse] Re: In defense of Google thread branch: J2ME and Android

2009-07-01 Thread Jess Holle
to even attempt to do anything about this! If Android does nothing else it will hopefully give these folks a kick in the pants to either (1) really update J2ME, (2) support J2SE [plus mobility libraries] and give up on J2ME, or (3) give up and support Android instead of J2ME. -- Jess Holle

[The Java Posse] Re: In defense of Google thread branch: J2ME and Android

2009-07-02 Thread Jess Holle
be preserved for JavaFX, but things will fall on their face as soon as you need to use a Java library. Android in some ways holds up to the WORA promise better than J2ME. -- Jess Holle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

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

2009-07-08 Thread Jess Holle
important than reification in my book as well. -- 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 To unsubscribe from

[The Java Posse] Re: #266 - Linux has amazingly good hardware support

2009-07-12 Thread Jess Holle
Because Mac OS X fully supports the hardware it is sold for. It's not expected to support more. It's part of the Mac-way. One of Linux x86's promises has always been to support the broad range of x86 hardware. People expect to grab any old x86 system and for Linux to work. Same goes for

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