I would expect that the Java Desktop is currently at the equiv. of rev. 0.3 compared to the vision. Do you really think Sun would do a desktop without completely integrating Java into it as a first class citizen? (look at the name!)
bzzzt... but thanks for playing...
If you actually look at the Java Desktop you will see that Sun has actually added some significant design features to the open src. stack. The community will benefit from this work. It's also naive to assume that Sun won't be adding additional features to the desktop and giving those back to the community as well...
In addition (as mentioned earlier) Open Office is a fairly hefty piece of IP that Sun has delivered into the community.
NetBeans is as well, but that doesn't seem to matter to the poster. There are companies that have picked up the NetBeans framework and have built products based on the code - just as Sun has done. Sun continues to contribute code back into the NetBeans community base.
The JAX* RI's are other examples (as was NFS, but then I date myself...)
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I would expect that the Java Desktop is currently at the equiv. of rev. 0.3 compared to the vision. Do you really think Sun would do a desktop without completely integrating Java into it as a first class citizen? (look at the name!)
bzzzt... but thanks for playing... If you actually look at the Java Desktop you will see that Sun has actually added some significant design features to the open src. stack. The community will benefit from this work. It's also naive to assume that Sun won't be adding additional features to the desktop and giving those back to the community as well... In addition (as mentioned earlier) Open Office is a fairly hefty piece of IP that Sun has delivered into the community. NetBeans is as well, but that doesn't seem to matter to the poster. There are companies that have picked up the NetBeans framework and have built products based on the code - just as Sun has done. Sun continues to contribute code back into the NetBeans community base. The JAX* RI's are other examples (as was NFS, but then I date myself...)