[openbeos] [OT] OpenOffice, Java and GlassElevator

Hello,

sorry for posting this here on the list, but the "mailing list" link on the 
Glass Elevator website is broken and thus I don't know how to join the 
list. Someone who has access to it: please forward this there, thanks.


Today, heise online wrote in a news feature that Sun and Apple are going to 
co-develop a Java version of OpenOffice, scheduled for the end of the year 
(http://heise.de/newsticker/data/se-28.07.02-002/ and 
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-946714.html).

Given the often-repeated argument that BeOS needed an office suite for 
becoming really wide-spread, that might be an argument to dedicate time and 
"manpower" to the development of an up-to-date Java compiler and VM for the 
BeOS. It would have to replace the Jikes/BeKaffe combination that AFAIR 
only supports Java 1.1 properly. This might be more efficient than 
developing a BeOS native office suite because there are quite some useful 
Java applications out there that would run, too.

But because of the great amount of work, it would need an entire 
development / documentation team that wouldn't be able to work on the 
actual OS. I don't think BeKaffe developers could do all of this job - the 
project seems dead and there were not too many people on it anyway. This 
would hava to be organized similarly to the work on the various kits is 
now.


  Jürgen

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