[Pythonmac-SIG] [ The Judge, Java, Windows, Mac, XML (fwd) ]

[Steven D. Majewski]

Although the top story, both for Dave and infoworld, news.com, 
and others is the java injunction, I'm forwarding this for the
second item about OSA/scripting support in Mac OS Runtime for Java:

  <http://stories.userland.com/ticketReader$18> 


I haven't looked at the examples referred to in the new release yet, 
so I'm not exactly sure what you can do with it, but it's clearly
another way to integrate Java and CPython on the Mac. 


- Steve Majewski


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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 03:19:28 GMT
From: DaveNet email <dave@scripting.com>
To: DaveNet World <davenet-world@scripting.com>
Subject: The Judge, Java, Windows, Mac, XML

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>From Scripting News... It's DaveNet! 
Released on 11/17/98; 7:19:25 PM PST
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  Earlier today a judge in San Jose issued an injunction forcing 
  Microsoft to either stop shipping Java Runtime with Windows and 
  Internet Explorer, or to ship a Java Runtime that is compatible with 
  the Java Runtime that Sun ships. The judge also ordered Microsoft to 
  stop selling development tools for Java unless they are modified to 
  be compatible with the Java that Sun ships. 
  
  The San Jose Mercury-News has the full story: 
  
  <http://www.sjmercury.com/breaking/headline1/006869.htm> 
  
  This may give Sun a lot of power. They will control a large number of 
  bits on the Microsoft OS distribution, unless Microsoft decides to 
  back off Java, and let Java find its own way onto Windows users' hard 
  disks. 
  
  I asked Bill Gates about this in a phone conversation late last year. 
  "Why not just omit Java?" I asked. He said they needed Java to be 
  competitive in the browser space. 
  
  No doubt there's some interesting discussions going on in Redmond 
  tonight! 
  
  ***In the meantime 
  
  The ruling comes, coincidentally, on the day we discovered that 
  Apple's Java Runtime for the Mac has extensive, very interesting, 
  hooks into the script runtime environment on the Mac OS. 
  
  <http://stories.userland.com/ticketReader$18> 
  
  What a trip. As Microsoft is forced to back off their 
  Windows-specific additions to Java, Apple is quietly shipping a 
  Java that bonds at a very intimate level with the Mac OS. 
  
  It's funny! And fun... 
  
  ***Apple and XML 
  
  One final question. 
  
  Mac and publishing. Big business, right? 
  
  XML and publishing. A perfect match, right? 
  
  So why is there no system-level XML parser for the Mac? 
  
  <http://stories.userland.com/ticketReader$17> 
  
  Apple, would you like some help here? We know some excellent Mac 
  developers who know XML and work for reasonable money. 
  
  Let's get this going! 
  
  Dave Winer (Who is proud to be both a Windows and Mac developer.) 

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