October 2008 Archives

Sun's ongoing brain-drain continues.

Stanley Ho, the now-ex spec lead for JSR-277, is leaving Sun to go to RIM. (Good luck!).

He's transferred the spec lead mantle to Alex Buckley, who also is the spec lead for JSR-294 (Improved Modularity), JSR-308 (Annotations), JSR-908 (Language Spec), JSR-924 (VM Spec).

Alex probably deserves a raise. JSRs take a lot of work.

Why doesn't Rhino expose it's hashes and arrays as Java's j.u.Map and j.u.List?

Makes for easy java <-> JS interop for the basics. Jython (as of 2.5) and JRuby can both do it...

I mean, these interfaces are standard workhorses, having been around since Java 1.2...

grumble...

&@%#$@ finally! Joost is using Flash. Hopefully not too late...