Comment Re:ugly child (Score 1) 172
Then, it was supposed to turn the web into an application delivery platform, and it failed miserably at that, too (Ajax is now succeeding there).
What the hell does that even mean? "AJAX" is not a web platform - and boy am I sick and tired of people totally misusing the term AJAX. AJAX enables web applications to make asynchronous requests, which are going to pull updated information back from the web application. How is that information generated? Well, quite possibly with some Java server-side code!
In fact, the proliferation of AJAX-enabled web apps has made Gosling's points even more valid. Now that we're demanding more interactive and real-time-updating web applications, we need more robust and scalable design to support those applications. And he notes that Java is a language that can deliver such robustness and scalability.
What the hell does that even mean? "AJAX" is not a web platform - and boy am I sick and tired of people totally misusing the term AJAX. AJAX enables web applications to make asynchronous requests, which are going to pull updated information back from the web application. How is that information generated? Well, quite possibly with some Java server-side code!
In fact, the proliferation of AJAX-enabled web apps has made Gosling's points even more valid. Now that we're demanding more interactive and real-time-updating web applications, we need more robust and scalable design to support those applications. And he notes that Java is a language that can deliver such robustness and scalability.
