OK, this is my pet peeve so I'm going to whine.

STOP THE MADNESS!

This insane forced march of everything to Java for everything has  
got to stop.
Apart from the fact that Java is a failure as a platform independent  
development tool
and that its libraries are obviously quickly hacked and poorly  
thought out, its performance
is generally slow slow slow.

Java is just a craze.  It will go away the way C++ did.  Ignore the  
distraction.
If you are looking for a sign - then I'd say that the day Java gets  
templates
is the day it dies (although it will likely take a long time to fall  
over).

> ...or:
>                             Winning Ignorance
>
> Excuse me,
>     I'd like to talk about a small idea: creating a Squeak VM for Java 
> Using the CCodeGenerator engine, I think would be not so difficult to 
> generate a JavaCodeGenerator class for building java source code  
for the
> VM.
> We will have Squeak running in a JavaVM, perhaps a bit slowly.
> After a bit of working, we can try to integrate the java GC, JavaBeans 
> and the Security concepts of Java into Squeak, generating a hybrid VM 
> and the Smalltalk of the future.
>
> A lot of java-students will look with interest to a Java-based
> implementation of Smalltalk, and start to download the SqueakVM.... 
>
> This is only an idea. I know the efficency problem 'd be not so  
tiny and
> so I am only talking about it....
> ...someone interested?
>
> --
> // Giovanni Giorgi          e-mail:   
giovanni.giorgi at mlab.disco.unimi.it
>
> // Master Thesis  at http://mars.sal.disco.unimi.it/~giorgi
> // Student & (ex)Tutor at Depart. of Computer Science of Milan, Italy. 
>
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