The TechCast “Java and Oracle, One Year Later” is now available in the OTN archives. Ajay Patel, VP Product Development, talks about a wide range of topics, changes, and plans since the Sun acquisition happened a year ago.
Some key quotes (partially paraphrased):
- “One key thing we have learned … Java is not just a platform, it is also an ecosystem, and you can’t have an ecosystem without a community.”
- “The objectives, strategically [for Java at Oracle] have been pretty clear: How do we drive adoption, how do we build a larger, stronger developer community, how do we really make the platform much more competitive.”
- “It’s about transparency, involvement. IBM, RedHat, Apple have all agreed to working with us to make OpenJDK the best platform for open source development … it is a sign that the community has been waiting to move the Java platform forward.”
- “It’s not just about Oracle anymore, it’s about Java, the technology, the community, the developer base, and how we work with them to move the innovation forward.”
- “Java is strategic to Oracle, and the community is strategic for Java to be successful … it is critical to our business.”
- On JavaFX 2.0: “… is coming to beta soon, with a release planned in second half [of 2011] … will give you a new, high-performance graphics engine, the new API for JavaFX … you will see a very strong, relevant platform for levering rich media platforms.”
- On the JDK and SE: “… aggressively moving forward, JDK 7 is now code complete … looking good for getting JDK 7 out by summer as we promised. Started work on JDK 8, Jigsaw and Lambda are moving along nicely, on track for JDK 8 release next year … good progress.”
- On Java EE and Glassfish: “… Very excited to have Glassfish 3.1 released, with clustering and management capabilities … working with the JCP to shortly submit a number of JSRs for Java EE 7 … You’ll see Java EE 7 becoming the platform for cloud-based development.”
- “You will see Oracle continue to step up to this role of Java steward, making sure that the language, the technology, the platform … is competitive, relevant, and widely adopted.”
Highly recommended viewing.
Cheers,
– Terrence
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02/18/2011 at 13:22
Davide
It’s now clear that JavaME has been completely abandoned from Oracle differently on what they said initially.
Sony Ericsson feature phones is fading out from the market since everyone is switching to a “more” smart OS, Nokia is abandoning JavaME because is switching to Windows Phone 7 and microsoft neglected the possibility to run third party code on the platform.
In two years, but I’m sure that this will be true sooner, JavaME will be completely out from the mobile market, from riches to rags.
I think that before thinking on improving JavaME by adding APIs, merging JavaSE APIs and bla bla bla, you should think on a JVM that can run on present Smartphone.
Features without support is nothing, and at the moment, too few platforms support JavaME.
You started well by writing a JVM for Windows Mobile but you abandoned the project.
You never started writing a JVM for android. Iphone, ehm yes yes, its difficult here but hey, you are oracle now, emh, I repeat, Oracle the giant
Symbian that runs a good JVM is fading out and will be out of the market soon.
The only one that carry the Sun flags now is Blackberry but they are thinking to switch to QNX and Adobe AIR, they have just started to switch in the tablets.
I have ported my mobile Apps on every mobile platform that exist today, except iOS for some reason, but the only tech where I feel at home is JavaME + Netbeans, I hope to have the pleasure of using this tech also in the feature.
Thanks.
02/23/2011 at 00:14
Tom Wheeler
Quotes like “the community is strategic for Java to be successful” are nice to hear, but I haven’t seen much evidence of Oracle involving the community so far. As I noted on the NetBeans discussion mailing list yesterday, elections for the NetBeans Governance Board are more than a year past due.