Re: this.showStatus not working...

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:01:02 -0500
Message-ID:
<A_ydnSlw4NVTIhvanZ2dnUVZ_iydnZ2d@comcast.com>
FB wrote:

as a registered Java developer Microsoft granted me the rights to distribute
their VM... and MS VM is still stable, 10x faster than Sun?Ws and there?Ws no
annoying auto updates...


Nor useful manual ones. You also don't get concurrency libraries, NIO,
generics, for-each, enum, HotSpot, security patches, ...

I don't get "annoying" or any other kinds of automatic updates to Java if I
don't want to, and I use Sun's (and IBM's, but that's not important now). So
I don't understand that as a benefit to using an out-of-date, incompatible
version of "Java".

Then there's this little nugget right from Microsoft themselves:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/java/default.mspx>

The MSJVM will reach its end of life on December 31, 2007.


Obviously this is old news now in 2008.

Customers are encouraged to take proactive measures to stay informed about
obsolete software and move away from the MSJVM in a timely fashion.
The MSJVM is no longer available for distribution from Microsoft and there
will be no enhancements to the MSJVM.
Microsoft products and SKUs currently including the MSJVM will continue to
be retired or replaced by versions not containing the MSJVM.


Good luck with all that.

--
Lew

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