The "Return" of Java Discussed

An anonymous reader writes "Following on from the marvelous recent James Gosling interview highlighted in Slashdot last week, it would seem that a renewed momentum is building up for his cross-platform creation, if this editorial is anything to go by. It's called 'Java is Back!' But did it ever go anywhere?"

Re:I agree with that

[Anonymous Coward]

it goes to my brain every morning. mmmm coffee!

Is there a Sun campaign going on?

[Scarblac]

For quite a while, when Sun was mentioned here, it was often in the context of "they're dying, no new research, no future, no idea of how to compete with Linux", and things like that. I think the height of that was this article [slashdot.org], which actually talks about who caused "the fall of Sun".

Now in the last two weeks, we see a steady flow of Sun-related articles. Java is being promoted (this article, and this [slashdot.org] two weeks back), there is news on Solaris ("Linux apps on Solaris" [slashdot.org], "Solaris coming to Power architecture" [slashdot.org]), there have been bits about their cool Sun Rays on Linux [slashdot.org], their R&D with the chips without connectors [slashdot.org], and rumours that they could buy a key player, Novell [slashdot.org]. There's also Looking Glass [slashdot.org].

All in 11 days or so. It seems someone is screaming "Hey Slashdot, we're really alive!". You'd almost expect them to sue SCO next week just for the attention...

Re:Return of Java

[isorox]

the most popular requirement is Java Enterprise experience

Yeah, and 15 years of it

No Star Wars joke?

[Fr05t]

No Return of the Javi jokes? I am very let down :(

Re:Return of Java

[Paradise Pete]

I've been doing server-side Java development for a little over 4 years now

See. that's the thing. If you'd have used perl you'd have finished in less than three.

I win!

[one_eyed_king]

I going to call my framework sex. I bet I win the googlefight by miles...

Re:I'll called my platform ".COM"

[Joseph Vigneau]

Good to see COMMAND.COM, MORE.COM, and EDLIN.COM are all live and kicking.

Java doesn't exist!

[dfj225]

Well, according to my research Java doesn't even exist! There are absolutely no servers existing in the .java domain. However, there are many, many servers with .net. Apparently, Java has much catching up to do if they ever want to pass Microsoft.

Pot, Kettle

[mihalis]

In the first article, Eric Allman says I'm curious about a couple of other languages. My favorite language to hate is Perl. It seems like no real thought was given to the language. It kind of grew over the years. So it's just really deeply, deeply ugly.

And this is from the guy who wrote Sendmail !