[Tfug] Re: Microsoft reveals 'critical' security flaws

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:11:26AM -0700, Anthony Hess wrote:

> Currently they are behind at 1.3.1, but that?s because they decided to
> change the way that Java interfaces with the system.  Previously, it
> interfaced with the Carbon APIs.  This is being changed so that it
> interfaces with the Cocoa stuff for the GUI.  Not being a Java developer, I
> don't completely understand what they mean, but Apple is definitely behind
> Java.  Their stated goal is to be right with Sun on releases of Java.

I believe it has to do in part with getting the GUI to be faster, and
possibly to fix up some wierd bugs with various javax.swing.* classes (I
found a number of these this past semester, all of which seem to be
fixed in the developer preview versions of 1.4.1 which Apple does have).

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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