Re: The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee

[James Perkins <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, I see what you mean now and that I do agree with. The Harmony battle is
a battle of it's own. I think the ASF has some hurt feelings over it, which
I understand.

I'm just ready for Java 7 to come out. I really want properties. I'm so
tired of the whole getter/setter methods. Plus the diamond operator. Can't
say I like the syntax, but it beats new HashMap<String, Integer>.

It will be interesting to see. I do think Oracle will do right by Java. It
sucks that the ASF is leaving, but we need progress IMO.

--
James R. Perkins


On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:23, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sorry, I didn't mean it that way.  I should have been more specific: this
> limtitation prevents Harmony from running on an appliance and claiming to
> be Java compatible.
>
> It's really a tempest in a teapot, at least for now.  As Thorbjørn noted,
> SE 6 is perfectly adequate for anything coming down the pike.  If Oracle
> does indeed force a fork between "official" SE 7 and the current open
> source JVM, it will be interesting to see how the open source community
> rects - will new libraries use only SE 6 capabilities?  Oracle is in
> danger of turning Java into PHP - the PHP4 vs PHP5 battle is still not
> pretty.
>
> Joe
>
>
> > I don't agree with Joe that Oracle doesn't want Java running on embedded
> > devices. Yes Oracles bread and butter is on the server side, but the
> > server
> > side usually talks to some kind of device on the user end.
>
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