[PLUG] Is Java Still a Good Development Choice?

[Jason Van Cleve]

Quoth Rich Shepard, on Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:11:33 -0700 (PDT):

>    For those developing commercial applications: what do you think
>    with
> regard to the use of java?

It would probably be an overstatement to say Sun and M$ are in
"alignment".  .NET, after all, is in direct competition with Java for
the enterprise market, especially with this new "Web services" craze. 
Java has a whole lot of momentum at this point.  I think the whole J2EE
thing is a crock, personally, but still I don't see .NOT passing it by
any time soon.  And Java as a language is proven and mature, with lots
of useful, well-defined libraries.  Besides which, it's just simply a
well designed language, fixing a lot of C++'s flaws without being
inaccessible to C++ coders.  So I seriously doubt it's in any danger.

Anyway, in the unlikely event of Sun deciding to pull the plug on Java
(and why would they?), the OSS crowd would produce a viable replacement
within half a year.  Which would probably look as much like Java as .NOT
does!

--Jason Van Cleve

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I feel like I've parked diagonally in a parallel universe.