You can do really nice things with the Google Maps API. Even more when you use the gmaps-utility-library.
Difficulty is that the documentation is not that great of the extra tools.
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Apache just made a statement on the TCK situation. They just got a three years extension on the JCP Executive Committee. I am happy about that.
In the same press release they state that Oracle is violating their contract by not endorsing the use of the TCK to validate the Harmony JVM of Apache. They threaten to vote against the Java SE 7 release.
I hope that they eventually do vote no on JDK 7. I would love to see Apache fork Java. I think that most Java developers trust Apache more to handle Java than they trust Oracle (and other commercial companies).
Personally I would please me to see Apache and Google fork and create a new Java. Give it a new name. Cut the deprecated API. Drop JSR-277 and use OSGi bundles. Start fresh…..
O wait I’m dreaming…
I use latitude and today an extra link showed up on my Latitude Gadget that is on my iGoogle. This is the movie I saw:
Geeky… but fun.