Star Mustang (Java SE 6) Gallops into Town
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 22nd Oct 2006 18:12 UTC
Java Mustang is galloping into town. Also known as Java SE 6, Sun's latest incarnation of the Java 2 platform should arrive in its first non-beta release by the time you read this article. Jeff Friesen shows you why the many new features (from console I/O and access permissions control methods, to the system tray API and table sorting and filtering) that you now get to play with make Mustang an interesting release.
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RE: But will it look good?
by kap1 on Sun 22nd Oct 2006 18:47 UTC in reply to "But will it look good?"
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2006-05-12

"but will they manage to make apps look good?"

The apps look great exactly like native apps, you can't tell they are java apps.

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by hurdboy on Sun 22nd Oct 2006 19:33 in reply to "RE: But will it look good?"
RE[3]: But will it look good?
by TownDrunk on Sun 22nd Oct 2006 19:43 in reply to "RE[2]: But will it look good?"
TownDrunk Member since:
2005-11-28

They still look like non-native apps, IMO.

Which apps in Java 6 don't look native? I guessing you're just full of shit.

What sucks in the java language? Seems pretty nice to me but since you are not specific about any of your comments I assume you just want to spread fud. In other words, you're comments don't mean shit.

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RE[3]: But will it look good?
by Sodki on Sun 22nd Oct 2006 20:06 in reply to "RE[2]: But will it look good?"
Sodki Member since:
2005-11-10

And, despite the speed increases, I'm sure they didn't do anything to make programming in Java suck less. I've gotten to the point where I'd rather bag groceries than write applications in Java.

I feel your pain.

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RE[2]: But will it look good?
by DittoBox on Sun 22nd Oct 2006 20:06 in reply to "RE: But will it look good?"
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2005-07-08

Does it render fonts using the windows font rendering stuff? I hate non-cleartype'd fonts. Nothing looks more out of place when your fonts are all blocky and ugly.

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RE[3]: But will it look good?
by tmack on Sun 22nd Oct 2006 20:10 in reply to "RE[2]: But will it look good?"
tmack Member since:
2006-04-11

It has its own font antialiasing/aliasing technology, AFAIK.

However, when you use it, you can't tell the difference.

But gone is the horrible Java fonts of the past, that's for sure.

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