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Sluggish MIDP emulation 9 29 (10/27/2005 7:21:00 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer I've been using the latest version of Sun's Wireless Java toolkit to do some MIDP development. The MIDP emulator is like a slug. My phone runs MIDP apps *much* faster than my desktop PC :-( The issue makes t... Tim

Generics - the path not taken 3 30 (8/19/2005 7:09:45 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer A while ago, Dale King asked why we have type erasure. Erasure would make sense if Java 1.5 code had to run of earlier JVMs, but - as has been noted - code compiled for Java 1.5 rarely works at all on earlier ... Tim

Solaris x86 review 4 11 (8/18/2005 7:31:25 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy ``Sun's Linux killer shows promise'' ``If Sun gets very serious about Solaris 10 on x86 and the Open Solaris project that it hopes will nourish it, Linux vendors had better get very worried. That's because... Tim

Eclipse components 3 22 (7/28/2005 12:19:42 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Are the Eclipse compiler and formatter available as stand-alone components yet? If not why not? Is it something to do with being big and blue? Or do they not want their competitors using these components? -- ... Tim

Linux competitor speaks out 21 23 (7/25/2005 1:49:30 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy ``Theo de Raadt is a pioneer of the open source software movement and a huge proponent of free software. But he is no fan of the open source Linux operating system. "It's terrible," De Raadt says. "Eve... Tim

Binding Format in Eclipse to a key 2 16 (7/23/2005 3:46:22 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer I want to bind Source->Format in Eclipse 3.1 to a key. It allows some key bindings to be configured - but not that one. What's going on there? Is it possible to rebind the "Format" command at all? IMO, Ctrl... Tim

Eclipse: Stripping whitespace at EOL 6 15 (7/12/2005 12:59:33 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Can Eclipse be configured to strip whitespace at EOL? Either at every save - or in the formatter? If so, what's the best way to do that? -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ tim@tt1lock.org Remov... Tim

Stallman: Nokia's patent announcement next to nothing 5 38 (5/31/2005 9:29:28 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Stallman sees danger in letting megacorporations to sew up IP rights: ``Stallman: Nokia's patent announcement next to nothing ``In effect, Nokia is lobbying the European Union to give Nokia and many others... Tim

Good vs Bad: Google vs Bill? 7 12 (4/25/2005 5:58:10 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I found this amusing: ``Google is much more dangerous to Microsoft than Netscape was. Probably more dangerous than any other company has ever been. Not least because they're determined to fight. On their ... Tim

Are circular dependencies possible in Python? 8 39 (4/9/2005 3:57:15 PM) comp.lang.python Like C, Python seems to insist I declare functions before calling them - rather than, say, scanning to the end of the current script when it can't immediately find what function I'm referring to. C lets you pr... Tim

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optimizing code #2 23 40 (10/5/2005 8:55:04 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer I am writing code that I would like to be fast. When are method calls not virtual? I could guess for static methods, constructors... any other? private methods? final methods? I would like to avoid the extra ... andersen_800 (66)

Is java open source? #2 11 14 (10/6/2005 8:55:14 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Hi, im doing a project on open source and one of my questions ins based on java: Is Java open source? Explain why or why not. Im having a hard time locating any information that can help me with this. Can you... Mastadex (7)

IDEA: Nested Packages in Java 3 27 (10/8/2005 6:32:50 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer I have written an article explaining a flaw in the design of Java packages and a design pattern that gets around this limitation... Click on the following link to read my article: http://www.geocities.com/dav... davin.pearson (9)

Whay aren't Strings Iterable? 13 37 (10/9/2005 12:55:33 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Anyone know why String in Java 1.5 does not implement the Iterable interface? It seems reasonable to write String text = "Hello, World"; for (char c : text) { // do something with c } and ... googmeister (247)

Java losing grip on web developers 15 29 (10/23/2005 9:30:12 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer Java is coming under fire as a tool for building web applications. In _Andreessen: PHP succeeding where Java isn't_, Marc Andreesen said "PHP is such is an easier environment to develop in than Java." http://... SAN3141 (6)

++i is faster than i++ in Java? 43 35 (10/25/2005 5:18:33 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer I want to know in Java, is prefix operator faster than postfix operator? for example, ++i is faster than i++. I know in C++, this is the case, but not sure if Java is the same. please advise. thanks!! ... jrefactors (359)

Sluggish MIDP emulation 9 29 (10/27/2005 7:21:00 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer I've been using the latest version of Sun's Wireless Java toolkit to do some MIDP development. The MIDP emulator is like a slug. My phone runs MIDP apps *much* faster than my desktop PC :-( The issue makes t... tim184 (684)

SWT applets ... not the best choice? 6 32 (10/27/2005 4:20:53 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer I've got a project lined up for next year. Some kind of "look through a presentation and then answer a few questions"-jobbie that will be an applet. Anyways, I've been looking at SWT and don't completely disl... EdwardH

Conditional imports in JAVA 9 26 (10/28/2005 2:13:49 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Has sun got 'conditional import' in Java yet? i got a common source. But there are 2 java 'jar' comm packages that might be used when program is running. one comm pkg comes from sun, the other from RXTX. Dur... U

Animated PNGs? 8 23 (10/29/2005 6:29:14 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer I've heard that PNG files have the capability of storing sufficient information to represent an entire animation, much like an animated GIF does today but without the copyright/patent issues that GIFs represent... no.offline.contact.please2 (560)