Category: Kev’s Blog

Had I been there this year this is something that I would have liked to have seen… a huge timeline whiteboard set out over several boards on a wall, where people could add their own experiences with Java.

There are some pretty good resolution pictures on the java.net site here.

Bruce Tate has some interesting comments on the announcements at JavaOne this week, on how developers have ‘hit the wall’ with the current programming model with overly bloated feature rich APIs:

“They’ve hit the wall. It’s ground-hog day all over again. Get excited. Learn a monolithic API. Start to build it. Make design mistakes. Dig hole. Make mess. Curse. Work overtime. Scratch and claw. Find silver bullet. Lather, rinse, and repeat”

We’ve all been there, done that. So whats next? Whereas OO programming was the last major shift to get past the last ‘wall’, he believe Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is going to be the next major change in development.

Major annoucements today included:

• NetBeans 4.0 released: now a complete J2EE development environment with support for developing JSPs, Servlets, EJBs, and Web Services
• Allied Irish Bank, one of Irelands largest financial institutions, is going to be migrating 7500 users to the Linux based Java Desktop System operating system.

I expect J2SE 1.5 is going to be announced this week, as it has been in beta now for several months, and Sun usually reserves announcements like this for JavaOne.. 🙂

I can’t image what other announcements there might be, as the big news around the POJO direction change for EJB3.0 is already common knowledge. Have to see what they announce….