Re: [TCLUG:12074] [OFF] Quick Java Question..

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:30:25PM -0600, Brian Ackermann wrote:
> I know this is off topic, but I just wanted to ask quickly of all you Java
> programmers out there:
> 
> What, if any, special libraries do you _regularily_ use for Java 1.1
> development?

	I'm a light Java developer, and I use jikes and Kaffe.  I won't
use anything derived from Sun code.

	There aren't any special libraries I use aside from Swing.  And
that's not a good library to use for applets.

	Java needs a select(2), or poll(2) like mechanism though, and
I've been thinking of writing a special library to do that.  Threads are
too much overhead when you're trying to serve 500 connections, and they
cause more trouble than they're worth.

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
Its name is Public Opinion.  It is held in reverence. It settles everything.
Some think it is the voice of God.  Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet
broke a chain or freed a human soul.     ---Mark Twain
-- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.mn.org  http://omnifarious.mn.org/~hopper) --

PGP signature