[Pythonmac-SIG] [ The Judge, Java, Windows, Mac, XML (fwd) ]
Steven D. Majewski
sdm7g@virginia.edu
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 23:23:50 -0500 (EST)
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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