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Sun Opens JDesktop Integration Components

Posted by simoniker on from the bright-disposition dept.

Jahf writes "Sun has released the JDIC / JDesktop Integration Components API via the LGPL. The idea is to create a Java API that allows Java applications to better integrate with a modern desktop. It allows apps to embed a web browser component, access/launch desktop applications and associate filetypes. Documentation and demos are available and there is an incubator project (SaverBeans Screensaver) under way. Sun has been a proponent of developing desktop apps in Java, including a number of open source Java apps in the Java Desktop System and developing new ones for it as well (Java System Updater), and this appears to be a step towards making that goal a bit easier. I'm sure that every release of Java Desktop System (disclaimer: yes, I work on it) will continue to get the 'it has nothing to do with Java!' trolling since Sun is using GNOME as a desktop foundation (imagine what people would say if Sun created a 3rd environment in Java!) But those willing to step back and look at all facets (JDIC, Java Desktop System, Looking Glass previews, etc), hopefully others will see that Sun is getting more serious about making Java a platform for desktop developers."

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  1. I just by thebra · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    installed Open Office on my Windows machine, its the first and only time I've needed Java runtime enviorment. I just don't use java the much, I'm guessing this is more for businesses? (I didn't RTFA I just saw the word "Java")

  2. Re:TOO BAD THE JAVA DESKTOP SYSTEM SUCKS SHIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i saw what you did there and I like it

  3. Re:TOO BAD THE JAVA DESKTOP SYSTEM SUCKS SHIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well I'm not a tech guy... I just buy what the tech guys tell me to buy. When it comes to buying equipment, all I do is write the checks and buy what I'm told to buy. I guess Nate didn't think a backup would be necessary or something, and since I know nothing about that type of thing, I couldn't second-guess him. All I do is write the checks.

  4. GET SOME PRIORITIES LIBERAL COCKSMOKERS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The quintessential President of the 20th Century has died, and all you can talk about is some joke about Java components? Show some respect, fly boy. Even if you didn't agree with all of his policies, you certainly can't deny that he brought down the Soviet Empire and changed America, for the better, like no President before him.

    1. Re:GET SOME PRIORITIES LIBERAL COCKSMOKERS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Actually, I can and do deny that he brought down the Soviet Empire and changed America for the better.

    2. Re:GET SOME PRIORITIES LIBERAL COCKSMOKERS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Can't deny that he brought down the USSR? Yeah we can... For that matter, anyone who knows anything about history not only CAN, but DOES. That was left up to Gorbachev, peristroika, glasnost, and liberalization, my friend. Reagan just happened to be around at the time and to go 'yes, yes, Mikhail, do that, it'll help... erm... you...'

    3. Re:GET SOME PRIORITIES LIBERAL COCKSMOKERS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Flamebait? I take it this moderater wasn't around when Reagan was in power. If any other politician agreed that he evidently had done an arms deal for hostages but that he couldn't remember having done it you'd think they were trying to weasle out of responsibility. With Reagan you really could believe that he didn't remember doing it. It was terrifying.

  5. Re:GET SOME PRIORITIES CONSERVATIVE WARMONGER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the hell are people supposed to do, stop laughing for the rest of their lives out of respect for Raygun's death? In Soviet Russia, America changes you!

    How about out of respect for Raygun's passing, you take a time-out from calling random people "liberal cocksmokers".