According to CNet, Sun is expected to release some of the code for "Project Looking Glass", a 3D desktop coded in Java.
The article also mentions that J2SE 1.5, code-named "Tiger", will introduce a 40-50% speed increase, as well as 'generic types'. I learnt Java this semester at Uni, and was learning Cocoa at the same time. Generic types were something I missed from Java, so it's good to see that it will be added.
If Looking Glass is all it’s cracked up to be, I’d like to get my hands on that for my old and dying PCs
Looking Glass to me looks like chaos.
I don’t think the 3D desktop metaphor is going to come into fruition in the guise of it.
I don’t think it looks too bad, Mat. Expose will do me fine for now, though!
I wonder if it would actually run on old PCs?
I would have thought it would take a fair amount of resources to do that kind of stuff, but I’ll try it out when it’s released anyway! I have an old Athlon 700 running Gentoo that’s not doing anything right now, (It’s meant to be a PVR, except I can’t get the damn drivers working!) so I can test it out on that.