11.2.09
21:19 Java update dialog (
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This is one of the many small things I dislike a lot in Sun Java:
The text is from the "Java Control Panel" and can be translated to "Java-Update has been last execute 21:15 at 11.02.2009". Time and date are well Internationalized, but the sentence is just wrong.
Update: I checked the 6b14 dialog, and now it's correct. Thank you Sun, this fast fast ;-)
Java GUI still needs a lot of polishing. I wish Romain would come back to Sun for a month and make all visible Java GUI applications looking nice/sexy (maybe black with a lot of cool animations). You can see what is possible with Swing when you look at applications from Palantir. I hope that JavaFX will also be used internally at Sun to rewrite some of the existing interfaces.
The good thing is that still a lot is done under JavaFX, so also Swing benefits from improvements. See the list of Java 6u14 which has just been released. Osvaldo share my impressions, read his last blog entry. As he does, I also appreciate the current development model, Java 7 beeing some kind of playground for new (big) features, and mature stuff is backported to Java 6. Reminds me the (old) Linux development model, with odd/even dual branch developement model. Still I whish they (we, it's open source) would learn more from Linux, for example regular releases.
In other news, the first (0.1) release of Linux Tools (for Linux) Project is out. Read here for more information. Sadly I have no time to test it :-( I'm hacking on a little C# project and must say I like it (except Visual Studio), not so big differences to Java, but some language features and API are simpler to use.
Also don't miss e4 09M1, the first release of the next big Eclipse version (CSS for SWT, SWT BE samples).Labels: Java
posted by Jean-Marc Autexier |
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