April 24, 2008
at 6:15 am
· Filed under Technology
From the Free Refill Department, the Better Late Than Early Department, and the Boy Who Cried Wolf Department, comes this interesting news item:
Java is “really open” Open Source now. Almost.
Yahoo reported this hot Java news on Earth Day, and Slashdot reported it and rehashed it on World Book Day, eWeek analyzed it last Wednesday, and snail mailed it on Monday, and I’m finally mentioning it on Bring Your Child to Work Day. I hope my 13 year old daughter doesn’t ask me to explain the difference between FOSS and “free beer”, or stump me with questions about how the CDDL is different than the GPL. I just enjoy drinking the free coffee. I drink the free coffee every day at work. Why? I just like it. Don’t ask me any difficult questions.
The video is kind of funny, and does reveal some tidbits of truth about the complexity of enterprise java development. But those who have been reading about Ruby and JRuby for a while realize that you can run Ruby and Ruby On Rails with Java.
But if you think about it… guess that goes to show you there’s a-lotta-truth here.
Is the Java train heading for a wreck? Years of API bloat, and fat passengers riding in first class, are taking a heavy toll on the Sun software engine. Is Java going the way of COBOL — being crushed by its own weight?
