Re: Pretty obvious. Isn't it?

From: George Birbilis [MVP J#] [9880] (birbilis_at_kagi.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:55:52 +0300

> The last link that Lars-Inge Tønnessen provides is the supplimental UI and
> this is the current released version of things that go beyond JDK1.1.4.
>
> IOW, we have been working on it :)
>
> FAQ on this library:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp/supui/

the phrase:

"The Supplemental UI Library is available for academic and other
non-professional use only, and is not supported or intended for use in
commercial applications."
there hasn't changed though for a long time now which is very unfortunate
(apart from disturbing)

MS doesn't need to scare people off Swing, people can choose by themselves
the APIs they want to use based on their needs (either longterm or
shortterm/per-project ones). So better J# support such standard (from
Java1.2 and on) Java APIs cause advertising that it supports "Java1.1.4"
APIs is a disadvertisement when Java is almost at 1.5 version with lots of
new APIs added from version 1.2 and on (aka Java2)

I know the J# team is looking into it, hope old-time policies won't get in
their way, now that McNeally and Balmer shake hands and share smiles...
Easier portability of an app between Sun Java and .NET (J#) means big
clients like goverments etc. have less fear of "platform lock-in" risk
(although they will still eventually settle with the best platform, they
always want to feel they have an "opt-out" not-very-steep path available)

Same goes with "mono", the .NET (partial for now) implementation on Unixes.
That's good news for Windows, not bad (govs will be less afraid of lock-in
if they chose Windows machines for their custom .NET apps). See what
happened instead with Sun and their bad attitude of pushing people to
rewrite their code to Java instead of providing smoother interoperability
with other languages (that's a major plus of .NET). In the past Sun were
even said to cause trouble to companies that were building native compilers
for the Java language and they've paid a heavy price for such behavior...

cheers,
George

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