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Sun To Give StarOffice Java Flavor

Posted by timothy on from the mmmm-customization dept.

ilovestuff writes "Sun Microsystems is building a Java-based development kit for its StarOffice software to help corporate programmers customise desktop applications, a move that better pits it against Microsoft's dominant Office. The software development kit will be available in the middle of next year as part of a minor upgrade to the business version of Sun's StarOffice 6.0, said Joerg Heilig, director of engineering for StarOffice at Sun."

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  1. Java? by jmd! · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I seriously don't get the whole Java thing. Sun seems to use the word Java in any new development to any product of theirs. It's worse than "XML".

    Java, JMX, J2EE, JDC, JDO, JCE, JNSI, JSSE, JNDI, JAX-RPC, SAAJ, Java ACC, JSR-115, JSP 2.0, EJB 2.1, JMS 1.1, JAXM, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL), JAXM, JAXP, JAXR

    Java seems like a really neat idea, with two huge problems.
    1) It's big and slow. Very big. Very slow. Java apps/applets aren't usable on
    my P2 266
    2) It has the worst marketing and learning curve in the history of computer
    programing. All those acronyms above are real. Sun's J2EE "platform" --
    platform? what the fuck is a platform? -- is used as a generic term by PHBs
    everywhere. To anyone that hasn't taken courses on Java, it's meaningless.

    Tell me what it does. Don't just give me a snazzy acronym. Maybe I'd have a use for it if I knew what the hell it was.

    Sun is one of our best hopes in getting rid of Microsoft, but they don't seem at all capable of dealing with anyone but the highest levels of enterprise customers. Their workstations have been abysmal failures, Java can only be considered a failure, and ever their server business is on the decline.