i am not now and never have been an employee of sun and i support the adoption of the sun api as the basis for further work.  i care nothing for politics.  it is simply a clean, simple solution to the problem at hand and the very fact that it requires more development makes it perfect for our purposes.

i have urged you repeatedly in private communications to take a less combative approach and now i am asking you in public.  you are doing little but giving others reason to ignore your views, regardless of their merit.  i see no reason to question tim's motives and many reasons to agree with the api he has helped develop at sun.  please take a step back and see that none of us is in charge here and we all want the best outcome.  the only way we can succeed is together.  we will be right sometimes and wrong sometimes (and sometimes we will be right and do the wrong thing), and that is the nature of standards bodies.


b