Re: The Swarm space (was RePast (another agent toolkit) released)

[Miles Parker]

Miles T. Parker
Software Engineer
The Brookings Institution  1775 Mass. Ave. NW  Washington, DC  20036
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>>> Marcus G. Daniels <address@hidden> 01/31/00 08:27PM >>>
>>>>> "MP" == Miles Parker <address@hidden> writes:

MP> As an aside, I do think that there was and has been a history of a
MP> kind of knee-jerk anti-Java bias in parts of the the open-source
MP> *nix world (and by extension, Swam.) 

>>It wasn't until a a year ago or so that there was usable independent Java
virtual machine with library support.  In fact, there still isn't
complete, freely redistributable source code for all of the popular
Java APIs, esp. Swing.

Yea, and I'll frankly be surprised if we ever see a good open source Swing 
distribution, but CMIIW. And IMO, the commercial distributions are typically 
much better than the free-software versions. Its clear that when you get into 
the Java world you have to give up a lot on the free-software fornt.

-Miles





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