Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 14th Jan 2006 00:14 UTC
Although, because of its prominence, Java gets a lot of attention and with it much criticism (some of it valid), many don't realize that some big breakthroughs have arrived and that the Java development landscape is solving important problems. Also, Developer.com posted their "product of the year" awards for 2006. Java related products have the strongest showing with the largest number of awards.
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2006-01-08
I hate java.nio
NIO has been designed by people who had been smoking too much.
What I like in Java over the majority of other languages is the synchronized method. Synchronized saves lives. Well, as long as you can use it. I can even imaging why a lot of multithreaded applications out there are so damn slow. Instead of encapsulating only instructions which could lead to side effects due to lost sync ppl just encapsulate the whole method.
Java & Python are the feature. I really like the fact that also Jython exists - there are situations where you write with java 300 lines and in python those are 50.
On the other side CPython is available for most plattforms, Sun JRE and its mods not. I hope Kaffe/GCJ/Classpath will create a very performant 100% compatible RE soon! If the compiled binaries will provide good performance, too, then nothing stands in front of Java anymore!
As for JFC/Swing: are there actually important applications (except LimeWire and Netbeans and JBuilder) which seriously use it? o_O Well, if 6.0 will make Swing fast, the java package will be complete.