On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 02:22 -0700, Bob Palowoda wrote: > > Don't you think using Java for this kind of things a > > bit of overhead? > > Its not like this app will be running on OSX or > > Windows.. why bother > > with Java then? Besides to do simple management > > thingy natively you need > > an extra layer, like JNI... I don't think its the > > right way to go > > frankly... :-) > > Define "overhead". Lack of performance, memory > footprint, startup runtime, or just plain something not written in C > is considered overhead. It's not like startup runtime > is a big factor as you don't run system maintance all > the time. Memory is cheap, look at KDE written > in C++ and it's nice performance but memory > consumption might be a little more. In fact > the java framework might be more advantagoues > to any gui desktop and more flexable in managing > a enterprise remotely. Something has got to > change because SMC is *NOT* accpetable from > a usablity standpoint. Could SMC be improved > like Darren pointed out? Maybe but that would be > resolved in the ARC case. Also note that in > the discussions a few times the project was refered > to as a "Solaris" project when it should have been > refered to as a "OpenSolaris" project with a well > known path of source distribution for all OpenSolaris > distributions. Either that or a roadmap.
Hey! I didn't want to start this flame.. :-) But I really do not see how Java fits in OS management GUI were you don't really need its multi-platform capabilities and associated difficulties. -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
