nov 13th, 2006
after resisting this for years, sun has finally open-sourced java.
this could mean either that sun has realized that java will do well with open source's many developers, or it could mean that java has become irrelevant as a competitive differentiator. i don't know which of these is the truth.
aren't all the smart developers now into ajax, asynchronous javascript and xml, which has nothing to do with java per se?
4 comments:
ajax, asynchronous javascript and xml are for the client side
For the server side the hot language right now is Ruby and the hot framework for web development is Ruby on Rails - Ruby on Rails is supposed to be 3 to 10 times more productive than Java for regular web apps.
Bruce Tate has a book on Beyond Java
another book by Bruce Tate is From Java To Ruby
Ruby Language was invented by Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto
Ruby on Rails was written by a Danish programmer David Heinemeier Hansson
Java still remains the language of choice on the server for large enterprise apps - but Ruby is moving very fast.
by the way Matz is Japanese
Also most of the Web 2.0 stuff is in Rails
good points habc..
ajax et al work in tandem with java and complement each other in the entire framework..
also ruby on rail is hot and will pick up soon in next couple of years.. but won't be able to dislodge J2EE as a whole..
I am thinking J2EE/Jini/SOA/WMF are here to stay..
Ajax is mainly useful for providing enhanced user experience (Google maps) whereas Java/J2EE is meant for enterprise strength Business applications. Dunno anything about Ruby on Rail but demise of Java has been predicted before. I wish I'd data that showed percentage of J2EE business applications in existence vs. non-J2EE ones but cursory glance at number of jobs listings for Java developers shows how widely its used. J2EE Developers who've used LAMP (Linux, Apace, MySQL, PHP) tell me that it's not as big a deal as it is made out to be.
-Sage
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