Journal tomhudson's Journal: Oracle vs Google - 10 years too late. 5
Remember 15 years ago how Java was going to change the way we used the web by allowing interactive "applets"? Lots of investor money went chasing all sorts of dot-bomb schemes that involved java.
When's the last time you came across a web site that used a java applet to give you "a great inter-active World Wide Web Page (circa 1995-1997)"?
And there's Project Darkstar
Java technology-based infrastructure software designed for latency-critical, massively scaled online applications such as online games -- not only will development costs go down, but the technical challenges of scaling, load balancing, data consistency, and failure recovery currently faced by developers of multiplayer games will be radically reduced or even eliminated. Project Darkstar, which is not to be confused with a game engine or a communications framework, is already being put to good use by leading companies in the games industry.
abandoned 2 years after it was supposed to remake online gaming.
Or the hype of thin clients everywhere running a java desktop? Or Java Beans components ("Take Delphi's component model and port it to Java, but change it"). Or Project Looking glass - the "3D desktop" that was never more than a slow cumbersome piece of shite? RIP 2006.
What would happen if you deleted Java from your system (aside from freeing up some space)? In most cases, nothing much.
On the server? 10 years, it's gone. Thank you Oracle for helping make it possible.
Opera Mini (Score:1)
I don't know if you want to count it, but Opera mini on my feature phone makes web browsing tolerable. AFAIK it is written in some form of Java. I use it a lot.
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Sun would be the first to admit (if you held a knife to their throat) that Java ME is not Java - it would never pass the Java licensing suite. It's a cut-down version of a much older Java, and it is this that Oracle is none to pleased about - this is the #1 source of revenue for Java licensing. If device manufacturers, from cell phones to bd-players and everyone else, can switch to dalvik, they've got nothing.
Consider this - Opera for devices was developed by Opera with .... wait for it ... Google. You
a POS e-learning site still uses it (Score:1)
The uni I take some night courses at sometimes uses blackboard.com, who's individual school interfaces look like they were written in the 90's and require Java in the browser.
Initially Java was just ahead of its time. It was destined to fail on the web and on the desktop because we had 486's and dial-up and barely-accelerated S3-based video cards back then. Plus it was touted as "a programming language for the rest of us" by early adopters and as "dumbed-down C++" by early detractors, neither of which exact
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One of the most succinct analysis of "the Java problem."
OMG the frameworks! It's like so many of the content management systems out there, when it comes time to extend them in any meaningful way, it's quicker to just write one from scratch.
So, what would you envision as the ideal replacement? Getting people to actually learn how to code properly with a real language, maybe with some extensions to make it simpler and avoid some of the most common mistakes? Or "just muddle along?" Or an implosion (like t
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OMG the frameworks! It's like so many of the content management systems out there, when it comes time to extend them in any meaningful way, it's quicker to just write one from scratch.
A framework can be done well if it has plenty of (strategic) points where you can plug in a customized alternative to the framework-supplied one. For example ASP.NET uses what they call the "provider model", which I think of as basically just the Strategy design pattern. So the framework is coded to interfaces and the implemen