A simple matter of…

Also known as:
* our program starts too slowly
* advertising our product makes our customers happy
* we’ll cover up part of the screen so you can’t work whilst our bloated product loads

I’ll admit that last one doesn’t apply so much to Windows users, but definitely _does_ apply (hello there openoffice) on Linux.

However today I was particularly pleased that despite Java _still_ not having standardised memory options, they have at least standardised the ability to set a splash image:

    -splash:
                  show splash screen with specified image

As an aside, why oh why can’t Java just grow memory usage when garbage collection is triggering too frequently – I’d _far_ rather have a program use too much memory than just fall over.

Lastly, when I talk to JMX, I want to use that IP address, not one it randomly chooses, heard of multi-homing? or NAT? The [http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/management/faq.html#linux1 FAQ] is crap – and no, adding Djava.rmi.server.hostname=ip.add.re.ss is also crap for the same reason.