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

[Anthony Steckman]

I always liked Swing but did seem to encounter glitches and 
cross-platfrom (Windows <--> Linux) inconsistencies from time to time, 
most of which have been resolved as of 1.4.1. At the same time, and 
without much knowledge of what I'm getting involved in, I find this idea 
of using GUI's described as XML quite compelling. They do seem to load 
up a bit faster than similar projects coded with Swing -- and the 
relationship between the GUI and the Java app proper turns out to be 
straightforward (not much different than adding an applet to a 
webpage, really).

Again, not sure if Cocoa really falls into that category of GUI 
development. Just excited about what is (to me) a very new way of 
approaching things.  


+ I'm probably responding to some of what was said below:

. Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 13:12:57 -0700
. Subject: [Tfug] Re: Microsoft reveals 'critical' security flaws
. From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
. Reply-To: tfug@tfug.org
. To: tfug@tfug.org
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. 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).
. 
. -- 
. Tom Rini (TR1265)
. http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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