Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 29, 2005 12:15 PM
Java is the easiest truly cross-platform (Windows, UNIX, and more) development tool for the broadest community to develop the most features with. There are more cross-platform libraries to build upon for Java than for the alternatives.
To exclude its usage due to the lack of an open-source Java implementation would be ridiculously myopic. The pure open-source folk need to get real. Java really is the best option out there for some OpenOffice features (probably for a good number more than it is being used for).
Those who claim Mono has some leg up *really* need to get real -- anything interesting much beyond what one could do in pure ANSI C++ (without extensions) requires Windows-only APIs that essentially require the entire Windows SDK or an emulation thereof. Mono helps only Microsoft by increasing mindshare for their language but preventing any real utility on any platform but theirs.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 29, 2005 12:15 PMTo exclude its usage due to the lack of an open-source Java implementation would be ridiculously myopic. The pure open-source folk need to get real. Java really is the best option out there for some OpenOffice features (probably for a good number more than it is being used for).
Those who claim Mono has some leg up *really* need to get real -- anything interesting much beyond what one could do in pure ANSI C++ (without extensions) requires Windows-only APIs that essentially require the entire Windows SDK or an emulation thereof. Mono helps only Microsoft by increasing mindshare for their language but preventing any real utility on any platform but theirs.
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