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- Java3D
- JOGL
- Java Desktop Integration apis
- Java packaging for desktop apps (Oracle eventually did it with the JavaFX reboot)
- Requiring devs to master the "Filthy Rich Clients" book in order to create cool Swing interfaces
- Making a mainstream product out of Sun SPOT before Arduinos and RaspberryPIs were a thing
- Ensuring J2ME fragmentation wasn't the way it turned out to be
- Supporting AOT compilation to native code, while all commercial vendors selling JDKs were doing it since the early days.
- Creating a GNOME based desktop named Java Desktop System
Sun wasn't all flowers and hugs regarding Java development.
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- Java3D
- JOGL
- Java Desktop Integration apis
- Java packaging for desktop apps (Oracle eventually did it with the JavaFX reboot)
- Requiring devs to master the "Filthy Rich Clients" book in order to create cool Swing interfaces
- Making a mainstream product out of Sun SPOT before Arduinos and RaspberryPIs were a thing
- Ensuring J2ME fragmentation wasn't the way it turned out to be
- Supporting AOT compilation to native code, while all commercial vendors selling JDKs were doing it since the early days.
- Creating a GNOME based desktop named Java Desktop System
Sun wasn't all flowers and hugs regarding Java development.