From: "John Lam (DLR)" <jflam@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T11:44:47+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Is C# just Java renamed? WAS: IronRuby...will it be like J++?

Charles.O.Nutter@sun.com [mailto:Charles.O.Nutter@sun.com]:

> John Lam (DLR) wrote:
> > BTW, I'm fairly certain that you can't do this in Java today, but I
> could be mistaken.
>
> Both are possible, along with other weird and wild things, through many
> third-party libraries for Java and non-standard JVM extensions. The
> difference is that they're not baked into standard Java, so they're
> generally not thought of as features of Java. C# and .NET in general
> include a lot of things as standard that are generally relegated to
> third-party libraries (often several incarnations) on the Java
> platform.

Wow. I had no idea that Java now has libraries that expose a generic query syntax that can be used over arbitrary data sources (in memory, database, web service data sources via custom providers). Do you support dynamic Intellisense for the data sources in the IDEs as well? Do you have a pointer to this?

Thanks,
-John