When at Lucent I had a friend that downloaded the whole Java shebang. Then he played day and night, and had all this Java structure to play with inside the firewall. I was amused by him. Given that the company then had a tight relationship with Sun Microsystems it was o.k. I realized then that this Java thing was a huge software enterprise. I am told now that engineers are given Hewlett Packard laptops! What a change, a Sun Workstation for a cheap laptop!
When I was told this by a friend that was recently considered disposable by this great French-American company, in that order, first French, then American; I realized that our fearless leader Carly Fiorina, not only destroyed Lucent, then she went on to destroy HP, and she is posed to destroy California now. I guess she must be some apocalyptic angel.
Anyway, I digress. I am updating some software for my Eclipse platform I installed in my computer running Ubuntu 9.04. I took the first official site, and I am still waiting for all those plugins coming in. I have enough Java software to run a whole Apache server in my puny machine. I do not have plans, just yet, to be in charge of an industrial strength site powered by Java tools.
Just having fun.
What I really want to do is to add a SchemeScript plug in for Eclipse, but I guess that is harder for me. I am a real neophyte. I did download the tar ball, I guess, though, it will be some kind of ugly polluting tar ball, like the ones in the Gulf of Mexico, until I learn how to this by hand.
Oh, well. It failed. I guess Mr. Ellison CEO of Oracle, the new owner of Java, is not that friendly with us, poor Ubuntu users of his valuable software.
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