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Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:*yawn* by theNetImp · · Score: 0, Troll

    So when you moving out of your parent's basement?

  2. Re:*yawn* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The reason I chose C# over Java for my latest work project is because C# has serial port support in its standard library. Using free (!) Visual Studio express, I banged out the project (A PLC control serial interface) in a weekend.

    I had originally planned to use Java, but the instructions for installing the javax.comm package were arcane and riddled with command-line bullshit. Fucking seriously, guys...it's 2011.
     
    ...and I'll be the first person to bash Microsoft, but they've made my job significantly easier.

    -- Ethanol-fueled