[The Java Posse] Re: Influential Java programmers should learn C#

2008-11-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RogerV, great, maybe we should learn flex/actionscript also. I haven't done a lot of action-script so won't pretend to know how the flex/ flash VM works. What I am interested to know though is how all that is handled inside the flex VM. With C#, when you write code agains a field and compile that

[The Java Posse] Re: Influential Java programmers should learn C#

2008-11-02 Thread RogerV
My current pain point is properties. Am working with Spring and iBATIS and iBATIS wants to map to Java classes that follow JavaBean properties convention of getters/setters. It gets so old and tedious - and clutters up the code readability - to toss all that getter/setter boilerplate in. But I r

[The Java Posse] Re: Announcement: Ask questions to the Java Posse

2008-11-02 Thread Joe Nuxoll (Java Posse)
Hey this is sweet! On Oct 31, 6:40 am, Dick Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > In the interests of trying out something new, I have set up a Java > Posse questions and comments service using Google Moderator. This is a > simple service that allows people to ask short questions or make

[The Java Posse] Re: Influential Java programmers should learn C#

2008-11-02 Thread Casper Bang
Completely agree, my hat off to you for speaking frank even though you obviously realize how unpopular that could make you. I'm rather hoping Neal Gafter's change will perhaps open up the community a little to stimuli from outside, for its own sake. /Casper On Nov 2, 12:56 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED

[The Java Posse] Re: Influential Java programmers should learn C#

2008-11-02 Thread Jim Blackler
2008/11/2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ... some stuff about C# .. I agree with all that. Having gone from C# to Java full time about six months ago, I also miss the way C# gives you a choice between stack and heap storage for objects, and the lack of obligatory checked exceptions (

[The Java Posse] Re: SwingX, JavaFX, what's up?

2008-11-02 Thread carljmosca
I didn't realize Shannon Hickey left too. When was that? On Nov 1, 2:53 am, Romain Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also now that Shannon Hickey left Sun, who's leading Beans Binding and > JSR 296? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are s

[The Java Posse] Influential Java programmers should learn C#

2008-11-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm not trying to set myself up for flaming here, so please read on. The reason I started off with this topic is that I see a great deal of `we need feature {x} implemented in Java' and then a whole host of solutions to the problem and then large debates over them. Again, not looking for flame wa