Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
This can't be a Java issue - it must be the
design-by-committee-for-all-platforms-ever-to-be problem...
I would love to see a good sound API in the style of SWT.
Call it JavaAudio...
... and implement it on Harmony code, we'd be very receptive to patches
and
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
But look at the bright side: there are probably many other really
simple yet useful things that can be done to make java more useful on
the desktop and this will be a marketing win for alternative JVMs.
That would be to be able to write small java programs which
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
This can't be a Java issue - it must be the
design-by-committee-for-all-platforms-ever-to-be problem...
I would love to see a good sound API in the style of SWT.
It's called quicktime for java and has been there for years :-)
--
Stefano.
Stefano,
Are you a Mac user, per chance? Because you sound like one...
See below:
On 2/17/06, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
This can't be a Java issue - it must be the
design-by-committee-for-all-platforms-ever-to-be problem...
I would love to see
Stefano Mazzocchi schrieb:
It's called quicktime for java and has been there for years :-)
Sure, Quicktime for Java is not that bad, but unfortunately using
heavyweight native GUI widgets, which are difficult to integrate without
side effects in a Swing application. If platform dependency
On 2/17/06, Tor-Einar Jarnbjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If platform dependency is accepted,
there are also a lot of e.g. ActiveX-bridges allowing ActiveX-enabled
media components (also GUI or video widgets) to be integrated in a Java
application.
Tor
Which defeats the whole purpose of
Fernando Cassia schrieb:
Which defeats the whole purpose of cross-platform java in the first place.
So why not do it win32 / linux /Gtk then?
Because Java as a programming language has other advantages than
platform independence.
Tor
On 2/17/06, Tor-Einar Jarnbjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fernando Cassia schrieb:
Which defeats the whole purpose of cross-platform java in the first
place.
So why not do it win32 / linux /Gtk then?
Because Java as a programming language has other advantages than
platform independence.
Fernando Cassia wrote:
Stefano,
Are you a Mac user, per chance? Because you sound like one...
Do you have a problem with that?
--
Stefano.
On 2/17/06, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fernando Cassia wrote:
Stefano,
Are you a Mac user, per chance? Because you sound like one...
Do you have a problem with that?
--
Stefano.
No, but I figured because you mentioned Quicktime for Java. Which nobody
outside the Mac
On 2/16/06, Fernando Cassia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
You try to sound clever by making that statement, but imho, despite any
other speed-up work who might be implemented, Sun's solution
is very important, and something that should have been implemented a long,
long time ago. I welcome
Anton Avtamonov wrote:
On 2/16/06, Fernando Cassia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
You try to sound clever by making that statement, but imho, despite any
other speed-up work who might be implemented, Sun's solution
is very important, and something that should have been implemented a long,
Fernando Cassia wrote:
On 2/16/06, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
which implements a very interesting trick to speed up java startup
performance: save the hotspot information in a repository (at JVM shut
down) so that the JIT doesn't have to wait when it starts until it knows
what
On 2/16/06, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We need to find the tab-browsing-equivalent of a JVM ;-)
It's simple, Google should make one of their apps a cross-platform, Swing
based java one.
Google, unlike Sun, will then have the marketing power to convince vendors
to preload a
Fernando Cassia wrote:
I'm still scratching my bald head thinking why hasn't Google embraced
desktop
java yet. Google Talk would be a killer app written in Swing / 100% Pure
Java.
It's never stupid to stay realistic. There is no JavaSound
implementation giving you enough control of e.g. the
This can't be a Java issue - it must be the
design-by-committee-for-all-platforms-ever-to-be problem...
I would love to see a good sound API in the style of SWT.
Call it JavaAudio...
Tor-Einar Jarnbjo wrote:
Fernando Cassia wrote:
I'm still scratching my bald head thinking why hasn't
Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com writes:
I wonder why no one has tought about having java auto-load at startup and
having a single instance of the Java VM running all the time, and then pass
control of the first loaded java application to it (as Mozilla or Firefox
pre-loads itself at boot
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