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Re: Desktop
I think Java apps need to pay more attention to packaging, and JavaOne could help a lot to spread best practices and unite people to define standards in this area. You should invide people from JPackage and Debian to help on this. It's not ok to have dozen copies of the same libraries (like Log4J) around my system, because each and every app has it's own lib folder with third-party jars they deppend on. Besides eating up disk space, this prevents us from getting class code sharing and so from running many Java apps concurrently. It's also not ok to have each app install its own JRE and sometimes one prevents the other from working properly. I'm tired to fix Windows registry, environment and manualy erase Java exes and dlls from windows\system folders. We need something alongside the Linux packaging system, maybe integrated as a new JWS. —
Re: Chapter 1: Owls and Ostriches
It is interesting to see someone who has written Java books lose interest in the language. But is there something genuinely 'wrong' with the language, or do they just need a change, some fresh air? I think that Java is still evolving, some good (annotations), some bad (generics), some in between (autoboxing seems like a good idea but I have recently seen some posts about nasty problems it can introduce with things like == ). Which is interesting. Up till about 1.3 I pretty much whole heartedly agreed with everything that went in (particularly 1.2 was a good step forward). Subsequently I do find myself a lot more in the 'conservative' or 'grumpy old men' camp. —
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