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Thursday Mar 02, 2006

Great online community brewing

Well, the Sun Java Studio Creator Forum been brewing for over 2 years...

Today, March 1, there were 89 posts. Doesn't sound like much of a forum.

However, to this date, there have been nearly 18,000 posts. This number does include posts made by Sun employees, subtract 300 and counting for me.

The great thing about the Forum is that there are developers all over the world using our productand the Forum is a resource to help solve a programming puzzle or report defects and suggest usability enhancements for Java Studio Creator.

We're getting a lot of help from our Community so big pat on the back. I hope we can continue to improve Java Studio Creator and help the developer community produce productive real-world applications. I know of a few developers who have developed applications
which contain over 50 web pages. This leads to an issue, we are working on to improve - performance.

The more pages and components an application contains, unfortunately, the more weight on the IDE.

Back to the Forum, for the first release of Creator, I posted a survey,
"Survey: Top 3 Usability Issues I" This generated 19 replies and consequently we tried to implement these bugs/enhancements in update releases. I filed bug reports and enhancement requests and also make sure Customer bugs are included in Quality Dashboards. Moving on to the second release of Creator, I decided to
post the survey again "Survey: Top 3 Usability Issues II" If you check this out, you'll never guess what the issue is "Performance"

We're doing the best we can to identify areas to be improved. What really helps is if a Developer
has a project which exhibits performance problems then please email to my alias cfqa-testapps AT sun DOT com

Don't get me wrong, we do have a few projects, just not many large 50 page projects.

Thanks to the community again !