Mono

Miguel de Icaza on -- Java, Gtk and Mono

Benjamin Zamora — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:27:00 GMT

A fun wandering down the road of Java, .NET, Gtk, and IKVM by Miguel de Icaza.

So today I figured it would be an interesting excercise to write a small Gtk# application with Java. To do this, I used IKVM the Java VM implementation that runs on top of .NET and Mono. [Read on]

Future of desktop development: Java, Mono, C++, ? -- from serverside.com

Benjamin Zamora — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:23:00 GMT

Havoc Pennington has written about the future of desktop development, and the cross roads that some of the major projects are at (GNOME, Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, Evolution). He writes about the various choices moving forward, and the issues behind those choices. [Read on] [from theserverside.com]

The fact that C# is even on the list must say something about Java and the political BS that surrounds the Java Process. If you want to flame, bring it on. I've done lots of Java and C# and personally I hated the snobbery of the Java community. I tried to get into Java and Linux but I always got turned off by the constant anti-MS rhetoric. My experience with the Mono and Python communities have been great so I know it's not open source. Give it a try, ask a group of java folks what IDE to use (elipse for me), what app server (JBoss and Tomcat here) and heaven forbid what GUI to use, Swing (total crap) or SWT (SWT here) ... much less what webUI framework to use.

Async I/O for Mono

Benjamin Zamora — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:46:00 GMT

More great work from Gonzalo.

Gonzalo has completed the implementation of Async I/O for Mono using the kernel aio_* interfaces [read on]

Code access security in Mono

Benjamin Zamora — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:47:00 GMT

Code access secirity, or lack there of, has been one of the complaints against Mono.

Mono CAS configuration tool
Benjamin Wootton has been working on Mono's Code Access Security (CAS) support. CAS is a way of creating arbitrary "sandboxes" in the .NET environment. The idea here is to load and execute untrusted side-by-side with your trusted code code without compromising your application. Similar in spirit to Java's security model.
CAS is needed for the various "click-once" setups for downloading, running and updating applications over the web, but more advanced uses enable scenarios like running untrusted plugins in a trusted application (for instance, a file format importer downloaded from the network, or plugins for your application which you do not necessarily want to trust).