Sun Opens Java.net

An anonymous reader writes "Sun just opened two new Java sites, java.com and java.net. java.com seems to be some marketing fluff. java.net, however, seems to be aimed at open source java programmers and is run by O'Reilly. It's got wikis, blogs, and hosts a lot of projects, including the new java gaming projects. Worth a look."

Comments

oxymoron

[L. VeGas]

java.net

Re:oxymoron

[wcbarksdale]

Sun stealing the .net name from Microsoft is worse than that time when the whole internet stole .com from MSDOS programs.

Wonder what took them to epoch

[mnmn]

... to provide community sites for java? And java.net sounds like java.NET. I think there should be a seperate community site for J2EE systems with a code repository, forums and recommendations, or am I ignorant of such a site?

Re:The Java.net creator is on to something

[DeadSea]

Java could really benifit from something along the lines of what CPAN has done for Perl. There is a heck of a lot of Java software out there, but I know of no central repository from which you can download, compile, and test, in a standard way.

The CPAN commmunity makes all this happen. If you have never used it, it is quite slick. The process goes something like this:
# install somenew:package
downloading |----------------100%|
compiling |----------------100%|
testing |--------------OK|

The Giant Java Tree is a nice collection of Java software, but it doesn't have the automatic downloads or tests. It also isn't as comprehensive as CPAN, but that is mostly because of the mountains of Java software available.

Christina

[bryonC]

Does anyone else find it strage that Christina Aguilera is a spokesperson for java? http://java.com/en/explore/mobile/christina.jsp

Re:Christina

[primus_sucks]

Yea they should have had James Gosling sitting at a keyboard with his belly showing.

Blogs, eh?

[jolshefsky]

... if she really likes me at all for being able to explain why all the functions should be arranged alphabetically. thankfully my antidepressants have kept me from killing myself.

June 12

aagh! i'm in bag hell. why won't my ui look like i want? bags in grids in flows ... i sound like dr. sues. roflmao. lol.

i was feeling good so i stopped taking my anti-depressants today.

June 13

i tried to touch my mouse but i think it hates me. i've been listening to the same depeche mode song over and over today.

i hate swing. i decided to just make one big flow and let all the buttons go where they want. it'll make a sh!tty calculator but who cares. does anyone care?

June 14

i woke up this morning finally manic. i got a grid layout for the number buttons and flowed the function buttons. it looks awesome!!!!!!! the support code is rock solid and i got junit installed and made 175 test cases. woo hoo!

my mom called and i talked to her while i called. she said i shouldn't have stopped taking my antidepressants. i told her i was on the cordless so i could be outside to finish my painting and i brought the laptop to the porch so i could code more test cases while i was on the phone.

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Re:The Java.net creator is on to something

[goofrider]

>>> Java could really benifit from something along the lines of what CPAN has done for Perl

http://www.jpackage.org/

Not really the CJAN that we want, but it's a nice repository of Java software prepackaged in RPM.

It's not cross-platform, it's not a real standard for Java software/component distribution, but it's the best you got on Linux right now. :)