[The Java Posse] Re: JavaOne vs OpenWorld

2009-10-11 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > But that's what I tried to explain, Fabrizio: The reasons for the > delay are probably entirely political; it has nothing to do with the > technical merits of this case. > That's why I think people should make pressure - politics is already too invasive, that we do

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaOne vs OpenWorld

2009-10-11 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
Steven Herod wrote: > What I don't quite understand is why the EU has a say in it? Is it > purely because the MySQL operation still remains in the EU? > EU regulates what happens in EuroLand. Since Sun and Oracle have got business in EuroLand, EU is involved. -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Arch

[The Java Posse] anyone tried actors in JAVA?

2009-10-11 Thread phil.swen...@gmail.com
Scala gets a lot of attention for Actors what about Java? Any thoughts: http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-java-actor-frameworks-compared.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Poss

[The Java Posse] Re: anyone tried actors in JAVA?

2009-10-11 Thread Viktor Klang
A bit old, no? On Oct 11, 2009 4:42 PM, "phil.swen...@gmail.com" wrote: Scala gets a lot of attention for Actors what about Java? Any thoughts: http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-java-actor-frameworks-compared.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

[The Java Posse] Re: anyone tried actors in JAVA?

2009-10-11 Thread phil swenson
not supposed to be news. was curious if anyone has tried it On Oct 11, 10:49 am, Viktor Klang wrote: > A bit old, no? > > On Oct 11, 2009 4:42 PM, "phil.swen...@gmail.com" > wrote: > > Scala gets a lot of attention for Actors what about Java?  Any > thoughts:http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/20

[The Java Posse] Re: anyone tried actors in JAVA?

2009-10-11 Thread Viktor Klang
There are a rather big list of actor libraries nowadays. Would be interesting with a shootout between all of them, from plain Java-based, to Groovy's GParallelizer, to Scala Ctors, Akka Actors, Fan Actors etc. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 8:19 PM, phil swenson wrote: > > not supposed to be news. was

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaOne vs OpenWorld

2009-10-11 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
Agreed, but, as I mentioned, the US (is being perceived as having) wasted all goodwill in the EU, so nobody is going to apply that pressure. Fortunately, people standing mostly outside of EU politics, such as Mikos, are now applying pressure, which may result in some politicians folding not so muc

[The Java Posse] Re: Karl's Kindle

2009-10-11 Thread Bill Wohler
On Oct 7, 3:53 am, kibitzer wrote: > Was actually hoping for a response from Carl (yes, I know it's not > with a K). Guess he doesn't read the group. Was asking because me here > in Aus would love a Kindle DX or similar size reader and wanted to > know what the KDX experience is like. Ah well. I

[The Java Posse] Re: anyone tried actors in JAVA?

2009-10-11 Thread Andres Almiray
Perhaps you'd want to look at @puredanger's site http://tech.puredanger.com/presentations/actor-concurrency He published a two-part article on Java concurrency and Actors a few months ago, you may want to google it. Cheers, Andres On Oct 11, 7:42 am, "phil.swen...@gmail.com" wrote: > Scala ge

[The Java Posse] Re: anyone tried actors in JAVA?

2009-10-11 Thread Alan Kent
Some comments in case interesting. My understand of Kilim (and therefore anything built on it) is you have to annotate every method from the top of the stack down to where you send/receive messages. Its very common for only the top most method to need annotations, but I suspect that for more