Microsoft to work with Eclipse on Java
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The Wizard of Doze wrote:
"The goal of the joint work, which will include contributions from Microsoft engineers, is to make it easier to use Java to write applications that take full advantage of the look and feel of Windows"
WTF? I mean, why don't these folks just use C# or (erk) VB.NET? Why don't they use C++ and MFC? Can't we let Java die, please??? Marc
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer ... it's all part of their machiavellian plan *Insert Evil Laughter Here*
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
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The Wizard of Doze wrote:
"The goal of the joint work, which will include contributions from Microsoft engineers, is to make it easier to use Java to write applications that take full advantage of the look and feel of Windows"
WTF? I mean, why don't these folks just use C# or (erk) VB.NET? Why don't they use C++ and MFC? Can't we let Java die, please??? Marc
They'd like to, but O'reilly have just scheduled another 20 books on Design Patterns in Java. :)
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They'd like to, but O'reilly have just scheduled another 20 books on Design Patterns in Java. :)
martin_hughes wrote:
20 books on Design Patterns in Java.
[ripping hair and eyes out] AAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaiiiiiii!!!!!
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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The Wizard of Doze wrote:
"The goal of the joint work, which will include contributions from Microsoft engineers, is to make it easier to use Java to write applications that take full advantage of the look and feel of Windows"
WTF? I mean, why don't these folks just use C# or (erk) VB.NET? Why don't they use C++ and MFC? Can't we let Java die, please??? Marc
Ask a Java programmer and he will say can't we let C# and VB dies?:) Or he will ask why they exist in the first place? Java is not going to die in the enetrprise world. SAP/Oracle/IBM/Webmethods to name a few are very actively using Java.
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
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"The goal of the joint work, which will include contributions from Microsoft engineers, is to make it easier to use Java to write applications that take full advantage of the look and feel of Windows" :omg: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9898168-7.html[^]
I actually rather like the existing Eclipse tool and the associated framework. I was forced, kicking and screaming, into using Eclipse when I used to work for IBM (I sometimes wonder how the friendly folk in India are getting on with my job). I grew to really like the Eclipse IDE. Whoever is in control of the Eclipse "project" must have had a great vision and carried it through the whole range of players associated with it and with significantly tight discipline. Also impressive is the range of spawned projects/ tools and even completely new "Applications" i.e "Eclipse Trader" and others. IMHO very neat stuff indeedy. So if the Eclipse project team and MS can both benefit from this that'd be great to me.
Peter Hayward Ngarkat Technologies South Australia,
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Ask a Java programmer and he will say can't we let C# and VB dies?:) Or he will ask why they exist in the first place? Java is not going to die in the enetrprise world. SAP/Oracle/IBM/Webmethods to name a few are very actively using Java.
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
Sad, but true.
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Sad, but true.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
Sad
I will not call it sad just because a console app launches 7 threads:)
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
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"The goal of the joint work, which will include contributions from Microsoft engineers, is to make it easier to use Java to write applications that take full advantage of the look and feel of Windows" :omg: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9898168-7.html[^]
Microsoft has had "joint" partnerships with others before, and they didn't necessarily work out so well (I'm thinking the joint IBM/MS masterpiece that was OS/2). I can't see this as being any different.
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I actually rather like the existing Eclipse tool and the associated framework. I was forced, kicking and screaming, into using Eclipse when I used to work for IBM (I sometimes wonder how the friendly folk in India are getting on with my job). I grew to really like the Eclipse IDE. Whoever is in control of the Eclipse "project" must have had a great vision and carried it through the whole range of players associated with it and with significantly tight discipline. Also impressive is the range of spawned projects/ tools and even completely new "Applications" i.e "Eclipse Trader" and others. IMHO very neat stuff indeedy. So if the Eclipse project team and MS can both benefit from this that'd be great to me.
Peter Hayward Ngarkat Technologies South Australia,
Peter Hayward wrote:
Eclipse Trader
That's a freaking awesome use of Eclipse. :omg:
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
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Jim Crafton wrote:
Sad
I will not call it sad just because a console app launches 7 threads:)
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
LOL! :) Yeah I'm unusually down on Java right now. But it (apparently) turns out that it's actually not Java's fault, as opposed to incompetent 3rd party developers.
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Peter Hayward wrote:
Eclipse Trader
That's a freaking awesome use of Eclipse. :omg:
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
Interesting! I wonder how it fares on the other platforms.
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I actually rather like the existing Eclipse tool and the associated framework. I was forced, kicking and screaming, into using Eclipse when I used to work for IBM (I sometimes wonder how the friendly folk in India are getting on with my job). I grew to really like the Eclipse IDE. Whoever is in control of the Eclipse "project" must have had a great vision and carried it through the whole range of players associated with it and with significantly tight discipline. Also impressive is the range of spawned projects/ tools and even completely new "Applications" i.e "Eclipse Trader" and others. IMHO very neat stuff indeedy. So if the Eclipse project team and MS can both benefit from this that'd be great to me.
Peter Hayward Ngarkat Technologies South Australia,
I'd agree that Eclipse is certainly an interesting project. And it runs much better than most other Java apps, certainly it looks and feels much more "native" than anything written with Swing or AWT.
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"The goal of the joint work, which will include contributions from Microsoft engineers, is to make it easier to use Java to write applications that take full advantage of the look and feel of Windows" :omg: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9898168-7.html[^]
To Quote Serious Sam:
Serious Sam said:
They always said two heads are better than one, but how does it f*rt?
Well, we'll have to wait and see.
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)
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"The goal of the joint work, which will include contributions from Microsoft engineers, is to make it easier to use Java to write applications that take full advantage of the look and feel of Windows" :omg: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9898168-7.html[^]
I LOVE JAVA. I wish I could get more contract in Java. If MS would have better supported Java and worked with Sun more cooperatively in the 90's my life would be perfect. I still regret turning down that contract to write software for a satellite for a higher paying .NET business application contract.
Need a C# Consultant? I'm available.
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The Wizard of Doze wrote:
"The goal of the joint work, which will include contributions from Microsoft engineers, is to make it easier to use Java to write applications that take full advantage of the look and feel of Windows"
WTF? I mean, why don't these folks just use C# or (erk) VB.NET? Why don't they use C++ and MFC? Can't we let Java die, please??? Marc
If you believe the Tiobe Index[^] (I'm skeptical), Java isn't going away anytime soon. Java is 2x VB and 5x C#. Providing Java developers a path to MS technology makes me think that MS believes the index has some validity. "At the end of the day, it's all about the developer." :)
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Ask a Java programmer and he will say can't we let C# and VB dies?:) Or he will ask why they exist in the first place? Java is not going to die in the enetrprise world. SAP/Oracle/IBM/Webmethods to name a few are very actively using Java.
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
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I actually rather like the existing Eclipse tool and the associated framework. I was forced, kicking and screaming, into using Eclipse when I used to work for IBM (I sometimes wonder how the friendly folk in India are getting on with my job). I grew to really like the Eclipse IDE. Whoever is in control of the Eclipse "project" must have had a great vision and carried it through the whole range of players associated with it and with significantly tight discipline. Also impressive is the range of spawned projects/ tools and even completely new "Applications" i.e "Eclipse Trader" and others. IMHO very neat stuff indeedy. So if the Eclipse project team and MS can both benefit from this that'd be great to me.
Peter Hayward Ngarkat Technologies South Australia,
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I LOVE JAVA. I wish I could get more contract in Java. If MS would have better supported Java and worked with Sun more cooperatively in the 90's my life would be perfect. I still regret turning down that contract to write software for a satellite for a higher paying .NET business application contract.
Need a C# Consultant? I'm available.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest HemingwayThat's hillarious, I just bitched a few posts up about how my satellite receiver keeps locking up and blaming it on the use of Java and here you were nearly responsible for it. :)
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying." - David Ogilvy
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Ask a Java programmer and he will say can't we let C# and VB dies?:) Or he will ask why they exist in the first place? Java is not going to die in the enetrprise world. SAP/Oracle/IBM/Webmethods to name a few are very actively using Java.
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
Add to that that the going salary of a Java/LAMP developer is about 15% higher here in the Middle East because they are so rare. M$ has done a wonderful job at penetrating the market real early.
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They'd like to, but O'reilly have just scheduled another 20 books on Design Patterns in Java. :)
20 nos? So, they believe there will be 20 people to buy *that* book? ;P
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