[ Thanks to feicipet
for this link. ]
“Now let’s look at Sun (let’s leave Oracle
out of it for now, shall we?). Sun is the custodian of Java, and
that’s perfectly good reason for it to back the Java
development platform completely. And Java can be cosidered a
success to a certain extent. It’s still holding strong at the
enterprise level. Huge companies like IBM are making tons of money
from it peddling to major financial institutions around the world.
Problem is, Java is seen as sort of a pariah where small to medium
development projects are concerned. “It takes 4 gigabytes of
RAM just to bootstrap the VM”, “didja just see the
length of that package name I just had to
type?!?!?!”,”dude, I just read the specs for EJB
2.1… I’m still looking for my cojones on the dorm
floor”. Common complaints we hear from developers standing
around the peripheries of Java development.“The Glassfish application server is the reference JEE
implementation and started out being just another application
server. It was OpenSource and all, but take up was still limited to
those who wanted to work with Java as a development language.
Personally, I don’t find Java that difficult. It’s a
pain to bootstrap development but that’s been alleviated a
lot by using Maven to manage projects. I like a lot of the features
of the platform such as pooling and a proper framework for
asynchronous processing. But one part that’s definitely been
falling behind is where web development is concerned. Too much
boilerplate code still.”