2007 Java Predictions

jg21 writes "Java Developer's Journal has published the results of its end-of-year poll of various Internet technology players, from its own internal editors to industry high-ups like the founder of Apress, Gary Cornell, and including too the thoughts of professor Tony Wasserman of Carnegie Mellon West. Participants were asked to foretell what they saw happening in 2007. Among the predictions — Cornell: 'The open-sourcing of Java will have no effect whatsoever on Java's slow decline in favor of dynamic languages (Ruby, Python) and C#'; Wasserman: 'The use of the GPL 2 for open-sourcing Java will inhibit the completion and acceptance of the GPL 3 proposal'; and Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson: 'The stigma of being a Web programmer still using Windows will increase.'"

Comments

Ever used Eclipse?

[mustafap]

Java dead? Tell developers who use Eclipse that.

Re:Java's dead!

[Ngarrang]

Java can be used for more than just web pages. I use a great little program called FreeMind that is written in Java. It is a stand-alone app. Java has a lot more uses for it and it is being used more wide-spread than some might believe.