Hi Anil,
I find it admirable that you have leapt to Vitally's defence and am amused
at the number of emails my flame has generated.
I know you are new to the jawin newsgroup and would dearly love to clarify
the situation.
I have sent many such emails over the past few years (yes years) regarding
the relationship between njawin and jawin and have always been a bit miffed
that Vitally always suggests that the closed source njawin is better than
jawin (using the jawin mailing list of course) and answers questions like
'how do I do x?' with, use njawin, its better blah blah.
Unfortunately, none of these improvements have been made available to jawin
so the spirit of open source software was has not been present.
The njawin product is the jawin product from CVS several years back and
heavily enhanced by Vitally and others in a closed source environment.
My previous email reflected my frustration with the situation in that
Vitally was unwilling (or unable for commercial reasons) to submit these
improvements for the benefit of jawin itself but was always happy to use our
time and resources to better the njawin product.
Thus my simple request that these commercial advertising type emails cease
to be posted on our mailing list.
The fact that the njawin product is going to be removed from download has
nothing to do with my flame of late last week I am sure. Vitally's company
does integration, it was only a matter of time until there were commercial
releases.
I am unaware of any refusal to allow Vitally to contribute to the project,
although this was before my time. Perhaps the damage had already been done?
I would like to hear more about the history of this 'brutal refusal' as
any of the team knows we are more than willing to help out project users and
team members within the constraints of our own commercial responsibilities.
Vitally crying hard done by leaves a bad taste in my mouth after having to
deal with the barrage of emails to our mailing list over the past few years
which have consisted of little more than misinformation, propaganda and (now
confirmed) commercial advertising.
Vitally, I hope your product does well, I have no hard feelings just a lot
of frustration.
Anil, I hope this clarifies the situation and hasn't darkened our team in
your eyes =]
Additionally Anil, I wrote a detailed reply to someone about using windows
sound recorder but go no response. If I recall correctly my suggestion was
that windows sound recorder, the gui did not look com, did not have type
libraries and that there were far superior java libraries (that ship with
the standard jdk) .
Here you can see my reply on a Sunday after your first post on a Friday.
Show me a commercial software house that will answer an unpaid software
support request in the time!!
http://discuss.develop.com/archives/wa.exe?A1=ind0509d&L=jawin
Josh
Look, you have to go deeper than that. This person has
been badly hurt by the 'management' of
this project. Below is an email from Vitally.
If true, you have to ask yourselves whether your
collective behavior was half-way decent or
professional.
I am a newcomer to all this and have no agenda nor any
interest in getting involved but for
the sake of your own integrity and that of the
project, it would be good if things can be
repaired.
"
> Hi Anil,
> this project. In my project (NJAWIN/OLEJA) I use the
> same idea but my code is not the same as JAWIN. I
> tried to help them with this project four years ago
> when I was unemployed but they refused me in very a
> brutal manner.
> Regards,
> Vitaly Shelest"
peace,
Anil.
--- Roger I Martin PhD <hypernexdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Anil Philip, misrepresentation is wrong. NJawin can
> be talked about if
> it is clearly designated in the post as a closed
> source alternative
> approach. This is the Jawin mailing list. Your
> opinion about a
> developers opinion is wasted. If you have something
> to contribute or a
> suggestion for Jawin, I would be interest in hearing
> it.
>
> -Roger
>
> Anil Philip wrote:
>
> >Hello all,
> >I needed to be able to call Windows Media Player
> and
> >Sound Recorder from Java. I posted the question
> here
> >since I am a Java programmer but know nothing about
> >COM. I read the Jawin docs and tried unsuccessfully
> to
> >use the type browser. I posted questions on the
> Jawin
> >list but no reply.
> >
> >I found a ready made example using Media Player in
> >Vitally's NJawin and he is helpful and willing to
> >answer questions. He deserves our encouragement; if
> >his stuff is better, then may the best software
> win.
> >
> >I think Vitally's NJawin effort is very good,
> >worthwhile and should not be shut down by
> >mean-spirited posts.
> >
> >If Jawin can do the job, then people will prefer it
> as
> >it is open source. Otherwise, if NJawin can do
> >something that Jawin cannot do, let people know
> about
> >it so they can make an educated decision.
> >
> >There is no need to "yawn" rudely like you (Josh
> >Passenger) did in your post.
> >-
> >Anil Philip
> >Olathe, KS
> >
> >
> >--- Josh Passenger <joshpassenger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>*yawn*
> >>
> >>Vitally,
> >>
> >>I ask you again to please stop using the jawin
> >>mailing group to advertise
> >>your closed source version of jawin,
> >>
> >>Josh
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>So start writing JNI code by hand. Why do you
> need
> >>>
> >>>
> >>JAWIN? JAWIN is a good
> >>
> >>
> >>>start point for developing your own interop. for
> >>>
> >>>
> >>COM modules in java or
> >>
> >>
> >>>something else. The project at
> >>>
> >>>
>
>>http://simtel.net/product.php[id]60701[sekid]0[SiteID]simtel.net
> >>
> >>
> >>>was started as modification of JAWIN. But now it
> is
> >>>
> >>>
> >>not the same.
> >>
> >>
> >>>BTW, I have made also the tool for MS VC++ to
> >>>
> >>>
> >>generate JNI code for java
> >>
> >>
> >>>classes selected. Maybe it will help you. See
> >>>
> >>>
>
>>http://simtel.net/product.php[id]90910[SiteID]simtel.net
> >>
> >>
> >>>Regards,
> >>>Vitaly Shelest
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: Warren Sweetman
> >>> To: JAWIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:37 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: [JAWIN] JAWIN and recordsets
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Why should I use this instead of the JAWIN
> >>>
> >>>
> >>product? What is the
> >>
> >>
> >>>relationship to JAWIN?
> >>>
> >>> >>> ns_cyril@xxxxxxxxxxxx 19/10/2005 13:06:17
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Get the tool (free) at
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>
>http://simtel.net/product.php[id]60701[sekid]0[SiteID]simtel.net
> >
> >
> >>> Generate java wrappers for MSADO and use them.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> "Warren Sweetman"
> >>>
> >>>
> >><warren.sweetman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> >>
> >>
> >>>message
> >>> news:s34e85d1.062@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am new to JAWIN (1.0.19). I am trying to
> wrap
> >>>
> >>>
> >>a dll offered by an
> >>
> >>
> >>> application. I am able to invoke a function on
> >>>
> >>>
> >>the dll that returns a
> >>
> >>
> >>> recordset. From here I loose my way a bit. Is
> >>>
> >>>
> >>there anyone who can
> >>
> >>
> >>>point
> >>> me in the manner that I should approach to
> >>>
> >>>
> >>retrieve data from this
> >>
> >>
> >>> recordset?
> >>>
> >>> thanks
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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