no disaster and suffering

If we can shuttle between galaxies ......
No boundaries, no wars, no realty, no disaster and suffering, no longer yours and mine!

Yes, it the most important for life to be no disaster and suffering!

Eclipse 3.3.* frequently crashed

I have encountered the crash on Ubuntu8.04 (x86 and AMD64),
finally I solved it on Ubuntu8.04 x86 by passing the '-vm' initial paramenter:
-vm
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so

Notice, the value isn't the well-known one:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/bin/java

if you set this value instead, it won't work.

Also, I have not tested it on AMD64 platform, currently I use IBM JDK for those platform and worked well.

Good luck.

Closures in Java 7: YES vs. NO

Java top-guy, James Gosling, Joshua Bloch, Neal Gafter, ... are debating this theme - Closures:

http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/closures
http://java.dzone.com/news/james-brings-closure-debate


I vote on 'NO' as this will let the JSL approach 1K pages, and,
Now I am still in this fear: The time I used to study Java 5 Generic was longer than to study the Java language, but let me use "generic" to designed a framework, I am not so confident.