[The Java Posse] Re: No commercial motivation to make Java 'better'

2009-10-02 Thread Alex Buckley
On Oct 1, 1:24 pm, Richard Vowles wrote: > So this Alex, is priceless. A mastercard moment. You say in one > paragraph both that if Sun wishes for language features it files a JSR > and then does it, and then say that Coin did it in the complete > reverse. Circumstances, circumstances. The plan

[The Java Posse] Re: No commercial motivation to make Java 'better'

2009-10-02 Thread Joshua Marinacci
On Oct 1, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Jess Holle wrote: > > Joshua Marinacci wrote: >> No. The out of process plugin was introduced in Java 6 update 10. >> > Understood, but prior to Java 6 Update 10 one could explicitly use > Java > Web Start to get out-of-process operation, which is what we're doing

[The Java Posse] Re: No commercial motivation to make Java 'better'

2009-10-02 Thread Jess Holle
Joshua Marinacci wrote: > On Oct 1, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Jess Holle wrote >> Joshua Marinacci wrote: >> >>> No. The out of process plugin was introduced in Java 6 update 10. >>> >> Understood, but prior to Java 6 Update 10 one could explicitly use >> Java >> Web Start to get out-of-proc

[The Java Posse] The JCP death spiral

2009-10-02 Thread Michael Neale
>From Stephen Colebourne: >http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/jsrs_submitted_over_time thought it might interest some folk. Yes the bulk of the work is into a few big new and existing JSRs, so probably not a death spiral, but hey, it sounded funny as link bait (helping out stephen). --~--~

[The Java Posse] Re: Augmented Reality Apps (observations more than anything)

2009-10-02 Thread Michael Neale
Google star map is fantastic - I have only seen it on android. But anything else I have tried seems, well, rubbish. Maybe we will look back and laugh like we do at "VRML" and other things. On Oct 1, 6:43 am, jamesh wrote: > Hallo > > Augmented Reality seems to be really fashionable at the moment