Apple/Java (was RE: You guys are so funny.)

["Sale, Doug" <ds...@us.britannica.com>]

i'm fairly new to Apple & OS/X (about a month w/ my TiBook), and have thus
not run into the native code dependency problems (yet).

i'm all for anything that would elevate the dev community's issues to both
camps (Sun/Apple).

-doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henri Yandell [mailto:bayard@generationjava.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:05 PM
> To: Jakarta General List
> Subject: Re: You guys are so funny.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> 
> > >> I am.  I use a mac w/ OS X :)
> > >
> > > Same here... Everywhere... :)
> > >
> >
> > Me too.  I'm hooked.  TiBook wherever I go, dualie 800 at 
> home.  Can't go
> > back.
> 
> The Apple Java list has had some complaints recently that Sun 
> don't care
> about Apple users and that Apple can't supply the time to support Java
> users.
> 
> Apple are doing a great job, but JAI, J3D, J2ME, J2EE, 
> Jblahblah and all
> the other Sun released APIs which have native parts (J2EE 
> deployer does I
> think) are not available yet. Sun's basic response is to talk 
> to Apple,
> Apple's is: We'll get around to it, it's a lot to do.
> 
> Sun are taking most of the flak it seems.
> 
> I wonder what a survey of Jakarta developers coding environments would
> show. If Sun were to discover that 40% of Jakarta committers 
> prefer OS X,
> would that change their opinion etc?
> 
> Or is it a, "Yeah, but we care more about the majority of users, ie)
> newbies. "
> 
> I can see a good reason for not supporting J2EE well on a 
> Mac. Until Apple
> release a 1U OS X server there's not much point, but the rest 
> are a shame.
> 
> [Thought that rant/comment was vaguely on topic....]
> 
> Hen
> 
> 
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