[The Java Posse] Re: Interesting User Comment

2010-05-12 Thread Vince O'Sullivan
On May 11, 11:31 am, Graham Allan grundlefl...@googlemail.com wrote: ... get bits and pieces added for months before we've got anything useful. Have you got any insight on why the first few deliveries were not useful? I thought the point of phased delivery was that it did put something

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Android beating iPhone in US

2010-05-12 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/11/10 10:32 , Martin Sturm wrote: I really find it hard to see the benefits for the end user of having multiple appstores. If that would be the case, you would have to check several 'app stores' in order to find out if there are new

[The Java Posse] Re: Flash demonstration on Android. Websites work, videos play, games run nicely. And Jobs said it couldn't be done.

2010-05-12 Thread Casper Bang
Yeah but by now it should be obvious that father Jobs is full of crap and his own ulterior motives. Unfortunately the world is also full of people who will follow their preacher unconditionally. No longer the only kid on the block, and getting dwarfed by alternatives, let's see if he can continue

[The Java Posse] Re: Flash demonstration on Android. Websites work, videos play, games run nicely. And Jobs said it couldn't be done.

2010-05-12 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
Holy crap, man. Take a step back. You're clearly tilting at windmills. For example, if you think that the beta flash for android is running on the JVM directly, you're clearly delusional. It's C code. Also, not a single thing Jobs said is disproved by this video. We don't know how much more

[The Java Posse] Re: Flash demonstration on Android. Websites work, videos play, games run nicely. And Jobs said it couldn't be done.

2010-05-12 Thread Chris Adamson
Context: In Thoughts on Flash, Jobs does not say it couldn't be done, he says it *has* not been done: In addition, Flash has not performed well on mobile devices. We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have

[The Java Posse] Re: Flash demonstration on Android. Websites work, videos play, games run nicely. And Jobs said it couldn't be done.

2010-05-12 Thread CKoerner
Good for Adobe, glad to see they are making some progress. That said I could give .02 cents about Flash and haven't missed its presence in my mobile devices. I'd prefer not to have it, considering how Flash has been such an attack vector for malware and the like. -- You received this message

[The Java Posse] musings on Java inside Oracle

2010-05-12 Thread Alexey Zinger
Not sure how many of the Posse listeners deal with Oracle databases on a regular basis, but I remember coding against an Oracle back-end at my very first Java job (almost my first job, period) and have been coming into contact with those databases periodically ever since, including my current

[The Java Posse] Re: Flash demonstration on Android. Websites work, videos play, games run nicely. And Jobs said it couldn't be done.

2010-05-12 Thread Simon Brocklehurst
On May 12, 2:17 pm, Chris Adamson invalidn...@gmail.com wrote: At best, this demo is about four years too late. Not sure how or why it's too late. Too late for what? To convince Steve Jobs? I suspect Adobe has moved past caring what he thinks. The reality is that Android will support Flash

[The Java Posse] Re: musings on Java inside Oracle

2010-05-12 Thread Casper Bang
No doubt, Oracle has a vested interests in making their DBMS's into application servers rather than just a dumb data-store, that's essentially what PL/SQL was about. Furthermore, I think Oracle would just lve for more ways to offer upgrades to the latest and greatest embedded JVM version -

[The Java Posse] Re: Flash demonstration on Android. Websites work, videos play, games run nicely. And Jobs said it couldn't be done.

2010-05-12 Thread CKoerner
full web is the support of HTML/CSS standards as was laid out when the web was 'invented'. Proprietary web is Adobe and Microsofts web, where vendor lock-in is encouraged through development for proprietary plug-ins such as Flash and Silverlight. -- You received this message because you are

[The Java Posse] Re: A Different Take on UML

2010-05-12 Thread Vineet
[Seems like we hit a moderator block somehow... Apologies for the repost. -Vineet] Hey Matthew, We were in beta for the last six months and currently are in exit phase. Architexa Suite is available for trial and we are slowly letting in people in to provide proper support. I would suggest you

[The Java Posse] Re: A Different Take on UML

2010-05-12 Thread Abhishek
Hey Matthew We were in beta for the last six months and in the exit phase currently. We are slowly letting people in for our trial to provide better support. Please sign up here if you are interested. http://www.architexa.com/ Thanks On May 11, 11:30 pm, Matthew Kerle mattke...@gmail.com

[The Java Posse] Re: Flash demonstration on Android. Websites work, videos play, games run nicely. And Jobs said it couldn't be done.

2010-05-12 Thread Casper Bang
Tell me, what media format does the full web lay out and in which RFC or W3C spec may I find this standard written down? On May 12, 8:07 pm, CKoerner chessm...@gmail.com wrote: full web is the support of HTML/CSS standards as was laid out when the web was 'invented'. Proprietary web is Adobe

[The Java Posse] Re: musings on Java inside Oracle

2010-05-12 Thread opinali
Many years ago (2001) I was writing my Java Performance Reports, and I received this email. I never disclosed this (although it's not that a big deal), but it's never too late - Hi Osvaldo, I was cruising the web when I encountered your article on JavaLobby. I noticed that you referred to Oracle

[The Java Posse] Re: Flash demonstration on Android. Websites work, videos play, games run nicely. And Jobs said it couldn't be done.

2010-05-12 Thread Simon Brocklehurst
On May 12, 7:07 pm, CKoerner chessm...@gmail.com wrote: full web is the support of HTML/CSS standards as was laid out when the web was 'invented'. Proprietary web is Adobe and Microsofts web, where vendor lock-in is encouraged through development for proprietary plug-ins such as Flash and

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: musings on Java inside Oracle

2010-05-12 Thread Kerry Sainsbury
Personally, I can't wait for SQL/J to come back and get the respect it deserved -- it was AWESOME. public void showEmployeeWithJob(String vJob, Java.sql.Timestamp vDate) { String vName; int vSalary; #sql { SELECT Ename, Sal INTO :vName, :vSalary FROM Emp

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Flash demonstration on Android. Websites work, videos play, games run nicely. And Jobs said it couldn't be done.

2010-05-12 Thread Peter Becker
IIRC there was no notion of something like CSS when the web was invented and most of what is written down in the HTML and JavaScript related standards nowadays came out of proprietary extensions by Netscape and MS. A lot is still not sufficiently supported consistently across the main desktop

[The Java Posse] Apple seems to be hard-bitten by Android market share news

2010-05-12 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A few days ago NDP reported that Android outperformed Apple in the smartphone market, 1st quarter of 2010. Apple spokesperson argues against the report:

[The Java Posse] JPA Column question

2010-05-12 Thread Sean
Dumb JPA question that I can't Google up the answer for... figuring someone on the Java Posse list must know :-) The DB I'm dealing with uses the _ character in just about every single column name. This then forces me to tediously use the column annotation over and over just to account for the _

[The Java Posse] Closures in Java 7: Not Likely

2010-05-12 Thread RogerV
Closures in Java 7: Not Likely http://www.davidflanagan.com/2010/05/closures-in-jav.html Anybody on this list have any insight to what's going on at Oracle regarding Java? Is this article an over reaction or spot on? I have to admit am starting to get worried about Oracle's stewardship of

[The Java Posse] Re: Apple seems to be hard-bitten by Android market share news

2010-05-12 Thread Casper Bang
1) The US is a traditional Apple stronghold. If Apple is getting left behind on their own turf, that would paint a grim picture about the international marked. 2) It's an erroneous generalization to disregards exceptions (iPad and iPod are not phones and belong to a separate marked). They have

[The Java Posse] Re: musings on Java inside Oracle

2010-05-12 Thread RogerV
I'm in a shop where I have PL/SQL devs, Java devs, C# devs, HMTL/ JavaScript web devs, Adobe Flex devs, and combinations thereof. On the Oracle back-end - the Oracle RAC is expensive to license and although it offers some HA (you can take a server node in and out of the database cluster), it

Re: [The Java Posse] JPA Column question

2010-05-12 Thread Marcelo Fukushima
theres a way to change the default naming scheme that hibernate uses to generate column and table names with a class thats called NamingStrategy (or something very similar) On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Sean sean.c.comerf...@gmail.com wrote: Dumb JPA question that I can't Google up the

Re: [The Java Posse] JPA Column question

2010-05-12 Thread Steven Siebert
If you're using Netbeans (The Only IDE You Need :), you can use the db table-to-entity reverse engineer wizard (Entity Class From Database) and change the column names to any valid field name you would like right in the wizard and it will handle the @Column annotations for you. It also handles

[The Java Posse] Re: Android beating iPhone in US

2010-05-12 Thread RogerV
Some have used the term hostage franchise model. I see it as Steve Jobs turning developers that target the Apple App Store into his manor of serfs. The thing that really offends my sensibilities the most about Apple's position regarding iPhone 4 OS is the locking down of tool/language choice. In

[The Java Posse] Re: Apple seems to be hard-bitten by Android market share news

2010-05-12 Thread Eddie
#5 is the most stupid excuse as apple chose to have one carrier. It's just like saying, we chose to not sell as many as android does. On May 12, 6:19 pm, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A few days ago NDP reported that

[The Java Posse] H.264 explainers

2010-05-12 Thread Chris Adamson
Seemed like there was some confusion and misstatements regarding video support in the weekly anti-Apple tirade. Let's see if we can clear some of that up. I'm going to fork this conversation for the sake of two readerships. FOR LINUX ADVOCATES: This entire discussion is pointless, because