Of course... I'm just saying that adding the aprilfool tag spoils the joke. Unfortunately, many Slashdotters are killjoys, so it shouldn't surprise me.

If you are going to post an April Fool's joke, it's probably best not to use "aprilfool" as one of the keywords.

I'm just sayin'...

It's not sharks with lasers.

It's sharks with frickin' "laser" beams!

Java will soon have support for "multi-processing". Effectively, the JVM will become an OS virtualizing the Java API for use by multiple apps. (Processes/Tasks/Teams are called Isolates in Java).

See JSR-121 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=121. (Note this JSR is in public review -- please provide feedback.)

Operating systems that virtualize hardware and allow different binaries to run will always exist. However, that doesn't preclude programming langugages from providing some of the same OS-like features to their programs.

Isolation is a powerful concept, and one that hasn't really been taken advantage of in the past. (Pilot/Mesa and Oberon, and a few others have done it, but no one seems to have noticed). Putting it in Java will make a few more waves...