Microsoft gives its Java virtual machine technology a three-year reprieve in the wake of its antitrust settlement with Sun Microsystems. But don’t expect any new MSJVM enhancements. On other Java news, NetBeans IDE 3.6, which includes two-tier J2EE 1.4 support, became generally available today. NetBeans is a pure Java, open source development environment for Windows, *nix and MacOSX.
Microsoft Extends MS Java’s Shelf Life
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Sun has released its testing version of Java Studio Creator
We know, we reported on this a few days back.
…and so far, its awful (stability problems galore). but it IS a preview release and it shows a lot of potential.
curious?? Also by keeping MSJVM there, who is it helping?? MS but maintaining support for its platform?
Shame they could agree to ship a newer version of Sun’s JVM.
Its a shame, this way there will stil be an incompatible “java” (it really isn’t java) version out there. The faster MSJava is killed off the better, no one benefits from it…except java-opponents (like MS).
My preference is still with Eclipse.
this is a good news for a casual web surfer like me. i only use java to play pool at yahoo or for chatting & surprisingly i have found MSJVM to be faster than sun’s VM on dial up (don’t know why) but it is fast & it works so i always prefer IE to play pool since they have increased MSJVM life why don’t they try to use it as plug in for firefox or opera?? is there any legal issue? ?
>this is a good news for a casual web surfer like me. i only use java to play pool at yahoo or for chatting & surprisingly i have found MSJVM to be faster than sun’s VM on dial up (don’t know why) but it is fast & it works so i always prefer IE to play pool since they have increased MSJVM life why don’t they try to use it as plug in for firefox or opera?? is there any legal issue? ?
You are using Windows , isn’t it? I believe you answered your question.Hint,hint,hint: MS Windows,hint, hint, MSJVM , hint. Ah,whatever!
You are using Windows , isn’t it? I believe you answered your question.Hint,hint,hint: MS Windows,hint, hint, MSJVM , hint. Ah,whatever!
Skilled Windows programmers can be found anywhere. Specially for a Virtual Machine implementation.
(If you imply that MS has hidden APIs to …speed up its Java, you are being ridiculus).
In fact, MS’s Java implementation was always the fastest Virtual Machine around, until SUN pulleg the plug, for the extensions MS added (extensions which SUN should have implemented themselves anyway and cut the “compile once” crap which resulted in Java being a player only in desktop space -the only place where portable binaries actually matter a little).
I recommend that anyone out there developing for java (even just for school or as a hobby) try it out if they own a half-decent machine. It might take a while to start up, but once you start coding you should have no problems, I’ve used it for something like 4 years now and and it’s only gotten better. And remember it’s open source. http://www.NetBeans.org
More and more it looks like the correct place to me is moderated down.