[The Java Posse] Re: Adobe cuts 8% of staff

2008-12-13 Thread Joe Data
On Dec 4, 4:01 am, sherod wrote: > http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE4B28D920081203 > > (A bit of balance after all that 'Sun cuts 18%, death of Java > imminent' news :) Granted, this is bad for Adobe. But they're still making a good profit (though boosted by some tax transact

[The Java Posse] Re: OT: content filtering on the net

2008-12-13 Thread sherod
This friewall idea is making us Aussies look almost as dumb as kiwis. :) On Dec 13, 10:51 am, "Peter Becker" wrote: > [was: Loose Coupling vs. Information Hiding and Ease of Change] > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Vince O'Sullivan > > wrote: > > > On Dec 12, 11:50 am, Casper Bang wrote:

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 7 features - NO CLOSURES!

2008-12-13 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
The -general- idea that right now having a modular JDK is more important than having a module system with direct language support in place is partly sensical to me. However, a few language level changes such as a module keyword, for the benefit of OSGi or for some JSR (I don't care), would have be

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 7 features - NO CLOSURES!

2008-12-13 Thread David Linsin
I should add that I find it contradicting because of his slide in the Devoxx keynote: http://picasaweb.google.com/dlinsin/Devoxx2008#5279235779801040690 with kind regards, David Linsin - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - email: dlin...@gmail.com blog: http://dlinsin.blogspot.com

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 7 features - NO CLOSURES!

2008-12-13 Thread David Linsin
I really wonder how they are "working closely" with the OSGi alliance. Mark Reinhold's statements on this were a bit contradicting, saying that they are working with them, but it's not jigsaw's job to be compliant or even compatible. OSGi is responsible to be compatible with jigsaw, althoug

[The Java Posse] Re: Netbeans 6.5 JAX-WS tutorial

2008-12-13 Thread carljmosca
Rob, No, you don't want to change any generated code (ever). The approach I have taken is to write a wrapper class for the web services I call. This class contains a method which returns a "Port". The address for the web service is constructed dynamically. As I think I said previously, this is