java license

[Rick Sivernell]

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:56:50 -0800
Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> Anyone have an opinion on the new Java license, which is apparently 
> open-source, at least in part?
> 
> I have been playing with the Netbeans 5.5 IDE, which is pretty nice. 
> Also has a c++ addon.
> 
> Opinions welcome.
> Ken

Just finished a project in Java, they used the classpath project. Still a pig.
The basic problem with the code was not the big things, the little things done
improperly. Like using a WeakHashmap, which the docs say DO NOT USE AS A CACHE, 
used as a cache. Meaning that they stored one to n-1 records over a period of
30 seconds to days at a time, depending upon a socket connection. After a couple
of minutes the Garbage collector determined non use and threw all data records
away, while the Key to the record in was stored in an map class.  All in
all, after I fixed 90% of the problems, while teaching programming to a novice
manager, who thought it knew it all and finally let me do what was required to
get it ready for their dog and pony show.Many other problems they had tended to 
cover up problems and I fixed each in as I came to them. Not everything is done,
they are talking of bringing me back after the new year to finish up.

They were using Netbeans 5 and it was ok. It has a tags program built in,
however I found it worked in only one direction. I have dl NB 5 w/ C++ and other
plugins and thinking about giving it a try. Probably move to 5.5 though.

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Rick Sivernell
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