RE: 3rd party stuff / was Java-based forums

Yeah... I like Java as much as the next guy; I didn't mean to offend
anyone with my comment. There are a lot of great libraries out there for
download. Just look at the Apache project... enough said!

However, from my experience, when it comes to full-blown, finished,
usable products that someone can just install and use "out of the box" I
haven't seen much that was "free" (read: OSS) that was all that great.
That is just from my experience though and I didn't pre-qualify my
earlier statements with that information. I may be misinformed, but my
experiences in that area have not always been that great. 

Dan Feather
dfeather@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 10:37 AM
To: 'Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400'
Subject: RE: 3rd party stuff / was Java-based forums

> From: Marc Logemann
> 
> > Yeah, I agree.  The great "third party library" world of Java is not
as
> > big as one might think.
> 
> this is real FUD.

<chuckle>

Let's not get too riled here, Marc.  SourceForge indeed has lots of
packages out there to help developers.  Heck, I even have a package on
SourceForge (OS400Bridge).  I think Jeff and I were just commenting on
the fact that the Java community is still more geared towards developers
than end users.

So let's keep it civil.  You want to disagree, great, but let's try to
keep the more terms that have very negative overtones like FUD out of
it.  I will attempt to do the same from my end.  Deal?

Joe

"Trying to make this the kinder, gentler JAVA400-L"

(Note to self: troll, bloatware, and OO zealot are NOT kinder, gentler
terms <grin>)

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