On Thursday 31 August 2006 12:48 pm, Dave Miner wrote: > You need a toolkit with which to implement a GUI. For better or worse, > Java represents the richest environment for doing so on Solaris, in my > opinion. It isn't a significant factor in the performance of the > install, though, beyond the overhead that we have in setting it up to > run on the current miniroot, which is completely a result of space > limitations on the first CD combined with the architecture of the > current install.
Dave, I'd just like to comment that I agree for the most part. I find that a lot of folks tend to bash Java for performance, but it's gotten much better over the past few years. I don't know if it makes more sense over other similar technologies, python for instance (I look at python as being a similar technology;-), but it works and does a good job, IMO. It seems easier for us to extend what we have, since much of it does use Java today. I think Java is one of the richest programming environments available today, there doesn't seem a good reason that it shouldn't be used. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group
