So what kind of teachers could a school get if it paid them US$125,000 a year? An accomplished violist who infuses her music lessons with the neuroscience of why one needs to practise, and creatively worded instructions such as: "Pass the melody gently, as if it were a bowl of Jell-O." A self-described "explorer" from Arizona who spent three decades honing her craft at public, private, urban and rural schools. Two with Ivy League degrees.
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Oracle plan exposes Java rift | ZDNet
Submitted by cahn on 27 October, 2008 - 1:13pmIn a move that has exposed a growing schism in the Java community, an Oracle proposal to bridge Java development tools moved ahead this week with approval from competing Java companies.
Oracle's stated goal is to codify the mechanism for plugging together different Java programming applications. Once standardized, an application developer could use a single Java IDE and be sure that an application for testing Java code, for example, would work glitch-free with tools for program design and source-code control.
Although other Java companies have applauded Oracle's goal, the proposal raises a contentious technical issue that continues to divide software makers.
BEA and Sun back a method using Java's Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) and Swing GUI (graphical user interface) components for building application user interfaces. The AWT/Swing approach creates identical presentations, regardless of the operating system. For example, an application that presents order status from a customer care application would look the same to a Windows XP, Macintosh or Linux computer.
On the other side is an approach espoused by IBM and incorporated into Eclipse--an IBM-backed project that is also tackling how to integrate different types of development applications--is called Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT). It allows developers to create applications that have a look that is particular to each operating system.
"Does the Java community need these different vendor-led efforts? Probably not--a single approach would be their biggest weapon against Microsoft," said Stephen O'Grady, an analyst at IT market research firm RedMonk. "From Microsoft's perspective, it can't really get much better."
Thomas Murphy, an analyst at the Meta Group, said he doesn't expect the debate to be resolved for some time.
"Sun has lost a lot of control over where Java is going, and IBM, in particular, has made a strong play with the (Eclipse) open-source project to work outside the JSR to add stuff to Java," Murphy said. "I see Oracle as trying to play the peacemaker role...(but) it will take at least six months to see where it's really going and how the affinities line up."
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