3rd party stuff / was Java-based forums

[Marc Logemann <spam1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta wrote:

> > From: Daniel Feather
> >
> > Don't be too surprised about not finding much in the way of Open
>
> Source
>
> > Java products. Java isn't as "free" as we'd like to think... another
> > topic for another time I suppose... anyway...
>
>
> Yeah, I agree.  The great "third party library" world of Java is not as
> big as one might think.

this is real FUD. I can more or less agree on that there are not too 
much java based open source >products< on the market (with products i 
mean something like Mozilla, OpenOffice or OpenCMS), but when speaking 
of libraries and developers tools, there is no language world wide with 
only half of that amount java offers.

Just check sourceforge, freshmeat, apache, java.net and many other 
resource sites on the net. Not too mention the projects not hosted on 
these sites, just having an .org domain.

I recently programmed a function that checks for new files inside a 
folder in the filesystem to do some processing on it. Something you need 
every year or something, yesterday i found out that even this problem 
was solved and made public many months ago (http://jpoller.sourceforge.net/)

Marc Logemann