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New Desktop Features Of Next Java
bonch writes "Sun has posted the new desktop features of the next Java, codename Mustang. Improvements to Swing look and feel, OpenGL 2D renderer performance, AWT features such as the ability to add a tray/panel icon, and improved deployment capabilities."
Is a Java Desktop what we really need? Explain to me why it's a good idea. Personally I hate java (both the computer types as well as the drinkining type ). And no this is not an attempt to start a flame war, I just dont see the need for it
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I was thinking they should add a new feature like not such random sluggish responsiveness in all java GUI apps on *nix machines.
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Not pretend open source.
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I can count the Java desktop apps I know on one hand. I'm sure theres more but it's pretty much a dead topic for most developers since Swing has sucked for so long. The more I think of it, I see lots of problems with the whole Swing API/programatic approach to building a GUI. Why can't it all be XML based where you just design your GUI elements in document form and load it in.
On a side note, I'm not very happy with JSP these days either. I've been doing dotnet development for a year now and love the idea that each page has an instance of a class behind it. I tried to get back into JSP again lately, but was disgusted to rediscover that all instances of a page are sharing the same object, which is very frustrating and anoying after having done it the other way.
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the overhead in java keeps growing in an exponential rate, for the love of pete make an OS from it instead, would make more sense instead of cramming more and more resourses just to make it more appealing, really from the small foot print of java 1.0 to java 2 5.0 there is no similarity whatsoever only in the name, wanna make java better? read how bad some classes are written and implemented, write smarter code and java won't be so crappy, and once and for all stop shooting java left and right, there is a better option for every thing java shoots for like flash for web application, PHP for server side programming and such, watch how many companies have dropped java based solutions for easy to mantain alternatives... java is great for the hobbyist and far from perfect for the enterprise.
RIP Java.
Demographically, it's clear that most Java VM's run on Windows. Why don't they write a version that works even half as well as Microsoft's VM did?
The first thing I do after building a clean XP Service Pack 2 (or 1a) machine is install the no-longer-available Microsoft VM. Then, I go to Sun.com to download and install... nothing.
If I work on a machine that already has the Sun VM, I install the Microsoft VM and set Sun's not to be the default Java engine for IE. I also get rid of the stupid f***ing shortcuts and update managers Sun loves to install.
Why didn't Microsoft just pay those assholes off and keep on making their own VM? It actually worked in Windows.
based on?
Suse is the dominant desktop Linux distro and Suse is KDE-oriented.
Suse no longer exists, it has been acquired by a company focuing on GNOME.
What Java needs is a major overhall. I know it ought to be fucking sexy, and it is. I developed and deployed parts of the Java Staton. I know people bash the speed. The god damn object syntax it self is a fucking joke! Who in their right mind makes a POS syntax that ReadsLikeABadWarezPost! Shit. For the love of pete! It makes having to write your programs with threads a nessesity: only god damn way to read your own god damn code and not go apeshit!Also what moron gave Java more than one Num type? Can someone explain to me what fucking idiot allows mixing of java and not? And the JAR file shit is a POS some JAR files run and others not. Someone call McNeli and Gosling and tell them to fix Apple support and to fix the god damn executables. Nextgive SUN a fucking clue: Yes the internet is sexy: however pusing app fucking lets over applications was a marketing blunder beyoned anything. And mabie, just mabie make a god damn JAVA Chip or something so that the god damn java programs don't act like the Valdez leeking more oil than a 5 dolla crack hoe. Then I want the real java to step the fuck foward: Why in gods name is ok for someone like Open Office to make a kick ass Java Application and Sun god damn mother fucking Microsystems version of Bubble Boble is a POS poor ass shity code that doesn't even launch. If it's a god damn standard then their doesn't need to be a million wrappers just pure fucking java.