|
|
Featured White Papers
Sponsored Links
-
Slow Apps? Overloaded DBMS? - FREE Download
FREE Download Feb 14 - March 7th Eliminate bottlenecks & maximize performance ScaleOut StateServer®
Java drama! Gossip! Excitement! All here! Got a juicy tidbit that you think should go in Java To Go? E-mail me at jfruh@jfruh.com, or contact me on Twitter as jfruh!
Java To Go
SpringSource finally gets around to putting Spring into its server
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 17:18.SpringSource's tc Server got a bit of notice here a year ago when it came out, mostly in the context of its lightweightness. The server is based on Tomcat, and just as the Spring Framework is supposed to sort of be like Java EE, but without all the annoying heavyweight crud that makes Java EE living hell to work with, so too is tc Server supposed to be like a Java EE app server, except without all the annoying heavyweight crud that makes Java EE servers living hell to work with.
Read more ...
Paul Murphy predicts Java's long-term obsolescence
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 20:43.Tags:
Paul Murphy's one of those tech writers who's been around the industry forever, and while I don't always agree with him, I do find a lot of what he says thought-provoking. On Saturday he posted an interesting and kind of grim take on Java's place in the software ecosystem. If I can sum it up quickly, it goes something like this: Java's greatest advantage, historically, was that its virtual machine shielded developers from the irritating shifts at the OS level, mostly from Microsoft.
Read more ...
OSGi plugs along
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 11:57.Tags:
Get it? Because it's a pun, and it's about pluggable modules, and ... erm. Anyway, whereas once long ago there was debate over how exactly the OSGi frameworks would end up implemented in the Java language, that debate is more or less settled, and now the benefits are being quietly reaped. One of the bigger bits of OSGi-related news in the past few months is the new support in NetBeans, announced last month.
Read more ...
Oracle to take its time building the perfect JVM -- but where's Da Vinci?
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 21:56.Tags:
As you may or may not have heard, Oracle has announced its JVM strategy, or at least part of it. Action is needed because the post-merger company has one of those problems that you sort of want to have, in that it now owns two highly regarded JVMs: JRockit, which came along with the BEA acquisition in 2008, and HotSpot, which had been Sun's. Say what you will about Oracle, but they don't necessarily fall prey to "not invented here" syndrome, and are generally open to using acquired technology if it betters something already in their portfolio.
Read more ...
Stop worrying and love the fragmentation
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 19:58.Today Pocketgamer put up a piece about all the Android phones being trotted out at the Mobile World Congress. Of course, how you feel about Android as a Java developer has a lot to do with what you feel that the relationship between Java and Android is and should be, but the title, "The new Java", certainly jumped out at me. Only author Ben Griffin didn't mean it in a good way:
Read more ...
Should JavaFX be put down?
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 18:41.One of (several) things I'm cranky about on this blog is JavaFX. Last December I asked if anyone knew of honest-to-goodness production JavaFX apps in the wild; in particular, as I emphasized in a later post, I wanted to know about JavaFX ads that run within a browser windows, as do most apps written in Flash and Silverlight (the technologies against which JavaFX ostensibly competes).
Read more ...
Another try at "write once, run anywhere" on mobile
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 17:16.Tags:
Hey there, while Oracle was worming Java's way onto feature phones, there was a big announcement from a consortium of handset makers and wireless carriers about something called the Wholesale Applications Community, which will provide a means by which developers can write and sell wireless applications across multiple vendors.
Read more ...
Oracle trumpets Java on feature phones -- while Adobe cozies up to Android and BlackBerry
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 18:16.Tags:
If you're like me and you have a Google News alert set up to deliver all Java-related news to your RSS reader, you probably saw several variations on this press release, which proudly proclaims that "Qualcomm and Oracle Pre-integrate Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client on Brew Mobile Platform Operating System." That's a lot of baffling trademarks for one headline!
Read more ...
Java point-counterpoint isn't actually about Java
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 10:56.Tags:
There was a fun and wholly civil little mini-blog debate between Twitter's Nick Kalen and the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group's Roman Roelofsen this week. Kalen started it with a post called Why I Love Everything You Hate About Java, and Roelofsen responded with Why I hate everything you love about Java.
Read more ...
Java's in new hands -- and here comes the backseat drivers
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 20:06.Tags:
Oracle is now wholly in charge of Java -- but there's no shortage of people who have suggestions for what they should do with it! To borrow a phrase from a friend of mine, the experience is no doubt akin to being nibbled to death by tiny chicks. Oracle is a company that's used to doing what it wants when it decides to do it, but Java really is a community, so there's bound to be input.
Read more ...
Hope for Oracle, as the axe starts to gently fall
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 18:59.Well, with Oracle having been in control of Java for a week or so, now, and Sun's former CEO quitting via Tweet haiku, we can start to take stock a little of the future of the Java platform. This JavaLobby roundup for JCP member reactions is intriguing just for its sheer hopefulness about the future of that crucial aspect of the Java community.
Read more ...
The iPad and what it means for Java
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:43.In my last post, I made a little joke about the closing of the Sun-Oracle deal being overshadowed by Apple's big iPad announcement. The folks at Oracle would almost certainly have preferred that their deal closed perhaps a few days earlier or later, so they wouldn't have to compete with the Apple marketing juggernaut. The two presentations were aimed at wildly different audiences; but still, there were important (and possibly troubling) hints at Java's future hidden in Apple's messaging.
Read more ...
Oracle-Sun closes; mists clear (a little)
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 01:40.Tags:
Well, the day we've been waiting for has finally arrived: Apple released its long-awaited tablet computer! Oh, wait, wrong blog. No, Sun has finally ceased to exist as a separate entity (at least in the US and Europe) and Java is firmly in Oracle's hands.
Read more ...
Sun and Java: Looking forward, looking back
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 03:51.Tags:
As Sun passes gently into that good night, a couple of interesting articles chronicle the moment of transition. The Register has a mildly jaundiced look back at Jonathan Schwartz's history with the company. Schwartz's rise paralleled the rise of software within a company that had really always been a hardware company.
Read more ...
EU: Sun-Oracle merger won't hurt Java
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 17:10.All this time we've spent in limbo awaiting the EU's OK on the Oracle-Sun merger -- the OK that officially arrived this week -- the frustrating assumption for Java fans has been that the hold-up wasn't even related to Java, though it would have a huge effect on the platform. The EU's official press release approving the merger doesn't necessarily belie that impression, with much of the up-front matter focusing on the MySQL drama.
Read more ...
About Us | Advertise | Contact Us | Terms of Service/Privacy
Copyright, 2006-2010 Infoworld, Inc. All rights reserved.