It looks to me like a reasonable description of the current state of the Java platform. • Oracle will direct Java innovation... Java innovation under Sun was rapidly running out of steam with version 7 was being repeatedly delayed and the new functionality reduced. Such new functionality as is being added to Java is no longer market leading but market catch- up. Oracle can't do worse. • OpenJDK is not fully open. I'm no open source expert but even I can see that a fully open source version of Java has yet to be delivered. • The JCP is dying. Dead, I would say although perhaps undead is a more appropriate description since is has become so animated recently. • Competition will shift to frameworks. Yep. • Fewer young developers will learn Java first. Java's greatest strength comes from it currently being the lingua franca of software development but it's declining rapidly on the client and there are many better languages around for beginners.
As mentioned in previous answers, there are several things that he left out but the stuff he did mention is a reasonable (thought not by any means the only) take on the current state of play. Which parts of the article do you think are FUD? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
