Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 8, 2011 @04:19AM from the larry-pulls-a-shot dept.

snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister suggests that the real news out of this year's JavaOne is Oracle's ambitious plan to revitalize Java on the desktop, the Web, and mobile devices. 'It's been tempting to assume that Oracle, with its strong enterprise focus, would ignore the client in favor of data center technologies such as Java EE. This week, we learned that's not the case. In fact, the real news from this year's JavaOne conference in San Francisco may not be Oracle's plans for Java 8 and 9, but the revelation that Oracle is gearing up for a new, sustained push behind Java for the desktop, the Web, and mobile devices. If it can succeed in its ambitious plans, the age of client-side Java could be just beginning.'"

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Re:*yawn* by solidraven · 2011-10-08 07:19 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Actually, if you want something cross platform then take a look at NetBSD. It's about the easiest thing out there to port to a new system. If you get the basic hardware support working it'll generally manage to boot to a useful state. Also note how it uses 0 Java in doing so. The cross platform nature of code depends more on the programmer's skill than the language I'd say. If you think about it that way ISO C is about as cross platform as it gets. An ISO C compatible compiler is one of the first tools made for a new system after an assembler. And it's available on rare and exotic architectures, neither of those can be said about Java (assuming you leave SPARC out of the question).