![]() ![]() ![]() It has some quirks though, I think there are some memory leaks in that huge app. It is a behemoth of a Swing app and one of the best Swing examples I can think of. Been using Netbeans 4.1 and my gosh it is a boatloads better than the 3.6 version! Kudos to the development team. The fonts in mustang now are handled correctly, what is still missing is a proper menu integration and some layouting problems in the file dialog, but mustang is moving rapidly towards a close to perfect windows integration.Īll I can hope is that Mustang will also soon contain the shared VM stuff, which Sun is working on currently in their spanisch research lab, that will help with the memo footprint even more.Īs for the long loading times, I said that often and I will say it again and again, Sun is tackeling the wrong area there by trying to fix it on the VM side, 90% of the loading times of a client app come from the ressource loading side of things, every resource and there are hundreds of them in the typical app, has to be unzipped from the jar file and then loaded and interpreted, which happens several hundred times during loading, moving that stuff to a compound memory dump probably would reduce the resource loading time by the factor of 90% because all the unpacking and loading would happen only once. You can see that in the menus, while windows needs almost twice as long to open a menu there is still the effect that swing is slower, windows simply fades the menus in, swing pops them up. Apple needs to realize that they need to offload some of these responsibilities eventually or they’ll be crushed under their own weight.īut as for the other complaints, some stuff currently is fixed in the mustang builds (download them from )įirst of all, there was a huge improvement of the psychological perceivement that Swing is slow, by fixing the rendering pipleline to a better double buffering system, the grey boxes now are gone which helps a lot. I think this sort of secrecy is what is hurting Java on the Mac platform. ![]() I’d really like to see developer blogs from Apple (More than just the bloke who works on Safari). It does bother me sometimes though how hush-hush Apple keeps their developers. Since purchasing my Powerbook I’ve been quite taken by the product and am eagerly learning Obj-C and Cocoa. I’m what you might consider an Apple fan. ![]() We’ve been trying to cooperate with them on Java, but there’s not much we can do, since the cult of secrecy makes it impossible for anyone over there to tell us anything. I think they do really nice designs.īut trying to deal with the company is so hard. I use one as my DVD player, and I travel with a Mac laptop. Is that right?Ī: I have a bit of a love-hate thing with them. Q: I understand you’re a big Apple Computer (AAPL ) fan. I found this part to be most interesting: ![]()
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