What has always confused me is that the Linux community that is supposed to be all-accepting is one of the most fickle 'organizations' on the planet. Wouldn't it be more logical for an 'Open Source community', whose whole purpose is to gain efficiencies in labor and knowledge sharing to evaluate each new technology based on it's merits so that the next generation of OSS can be that much better instead of disregarding it's contributions to the state of the art?
The Apache Group has embraced Java as a viable solution, producing many QUALITY Open Source applications, Tomcat, Ant, Velocity, Jasper, et al.
All you guys have proved is that (with exception to the embedded community - they have viable concerns) that you are all very close-minded. Java is an excellent technology. Evaluation of a technology based upon the perspective of the company that produced it is RIDICULOUS for any true engineer. Is it the Holy Grail? - NO, but neither is Linux nor any of the libraries or tools developed by Linux advocates. Sorry for bursting your bubble guys...
Why in forums like this are technologies ONLY torn down? Why not be objective and list it's virtues as well as failures so that the community can REALLY LEARN from what Java (and any other technology) represents as a solution, so that the next innovation can be that much better?
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What has always confused me is that the Linux community that is supposed to be all-accepting is one of the most fickle 'organizations' on the planet. Wouldn't it be more logical for an 'Open Source community', whose whole purpose is to gain efficiencies in labor and knowledge sharing to evaluate each new technology based on it's merits so that the next generation of OSS can be that much better instead of disregarding it's contributions to the state of the art?
The Apache Group has embraced Java as a viable solution, producing many QUALITY Open Source applications, Tomcat, Ant, Velocity, Jasper, et al.
All you guys have proved is that (with exception to the embedded community - they have viable concerns) that you are all very close-minded. Java is an excellent technology. Evaluation of a technology based upon the perspective of the company that produced it is RIDICULOUS for any true engineer. Is it the Holy Grail? - NO, but neither is Linux nor any of the libraries or tools developed by Linux advocates. Sorry for bursting your bubble guys...
Why in forums like this are technologies ONLY torn down? Why not be objective and list it's virtues as well as failures so that the community can REALLY LEARN from what Java (and any other technology) represents as a solution, so that the next innovation can be that much better?
Thats it.