YellowTAB has released a service pack for its Zeta operating system, bumping the version number to 1.1. This .pdf (in German, English version not (yet) available) describes the changes in a detailed fashion. In addition, "due to the unexpected amount of interest in yellowTAB's VideoEditor, we have decided not to release a stand-alone ProVersion. Instead, the ProVersion and its many anxiously awaited features will be integrated into our Zeta DeluxeEdition release."
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Member since:Bryan Varner and Andrew Bachman are the two I know of working on the Sun Java port for BeOS, and are officially recognized by Sun as the developers. If yT has the source code from way back when, they don't have it with Sun's blessing, and they aren't likely to be as far along as Bryan and Andrew are, either.
Bryan and Andrew are doing this on their own time, without pay. They are, however, the most promising route at this time, and they had quite a bit that was done and able to show the results (but they could not and did not distribute binaries or source to anyone, per terms of NDA) they have thus far, though quite incomplete in a large number of things that need to exist to be blessed by Sun. If you wish to get the best status of the progress of the BeOS Java port, see Bryan Varner's blog at http://bryan.varnernet.com/ to read about things.
Member since:2005-08-26
Gee. Someone is well informed.
I know nothing about Zeta and Java. I do know something (har har) about BeOS and Java.
YellowTab has stated (well, Bernd has stated) "ve half our own people vorking on jawa" in at least one video-taped interview. To say this was a shock to me would be an understatement. At one time it was my understanding that YellowTab was going to be working with beunited.org in the java port. It is my impression that this was smoke and mirrors, and I've not seen anything concrete to back that up. Indeed, instead I see video of Bernd saying the opposite. I'd like to meet those people they have working on "jawa" I've got some questions I'd like to pick their brain on. I'd really like to know how much they've managed to get working. I find it odd that YT would claim to have java and never show a screenshot -- they seem to like showing screenshots of their (multiple) media applications way before their finished...
If YellowTab does somehow have a hold of our source tree, it's my understanding they would need to negotiate a license to see, modify, etc. the source from Sun. Without that, anything they do with it would put them on very, very shaky legal ground.
Even if the source did somehow leak, it's functionality would be seriously limited compared to what's sitting on my box at home. We're constantly making improvements to the J2SE implementation as well as the HotSpot VM. Since the demo at WalterCon (where we hit the per team thread limit without crashing the VM) we've fixed several crashing bugs in HotSpot.
Andrew and I have been the most active (Andrew is a MACHINE!) on the port, but there are others who have contributed in the past, and we got a few new recruits recently that we're hoping pull through.
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2005-07-06
What is the status of Java on Zeta? For example, if you visit a website that has Java applets, with Firefox, how does it behave?