The Java crisis and what it means for developers

By tim, on November 13th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

What is happening with the Java language and runtime? Since Java passed into the hands of Oracle, following its acquisition of Sun, there has been a succession of bad news. To recap:

The JavaOne conference in September 2010 was held in the shadow of Oracle OpenWorld making it a less significant event than in previous

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November 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: .net, apple, development, flash, java, microsoft, mono, open source, oracle, professional, silverlight, software development, Sun | 9 comments

Oracle versus the JCP as Java’s future is debated

By tim, on September 30th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

There has always been an uneasy balance between Java as a cross-platform, cross-vendor standard; and Java as a proprietary technology. Under Sun’s stewardship the balance was tilted towards the cross-platform standard. Eventually, Java was open-sourced as the OpenJDK. However, Sun, and therefore now Oracle following its acquisition of Sun, still owns Java. The official Java

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September 30th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: java, open source, professional, software development | Leave a comment