It will be interesting to see how it shakes out for two reasons I can think of.
1. Blogging by it's natures blurs the lines between public and private. Where those boundaries will end up isn't yet clear. I'll offer this preliminary hypothesis: sexual confessionals, ok; slagging off your employeer, not ok.;)
2. Googles sees some competitive advantage to being in "blog space." If bloggers decided Google is "big brother," they'll find some other means of expressing themselves.
In the case I mentioned in my original post, it's a single J2EE platform, Weblogic. Switching application servers would be non-trivial because our system uses EJB 2.0 CMP/CMR extensively. We use Ejbgen, which has been great, but is targeted to the Weblogic platform. If I were starting again today I'd use xdoclet as it's more flexible and, I believe, switching platforms would be nearly as easy as switching OS's is now. This is wishful thinking with a small POC as the underpinning.
I'm not a Java zealot by any means, but Java deserves credit for what it does well and one of those things is reducing the importance of platform.
I've recently worked on a J2EE project with nearly 1 million lines of code -- they're all needed, really;) -- that runs on XP, Redhat, Mac/OS, Solaris >= 8, HP/UX and AIX 5L.
Have there been platform related bugs? Yes.
Are there any open? No.
Are there some lurking? Maybe, but we've tested extensively.
Could any collection of jackasses build this app? No, sorry.
Is Java a magic bullet? No more than any other tool.
Obviously malware wouldn't be possible at all without PC's and, in large part, the Internet. However, who would argue that the solution to malware is doing away with PC's and the Internet. While malware is a real threat, insecurities should be addressed rather than stopping the march of features that add real value to the user.
I once had to debug a legacy TCL script that was serveral thousand lines in length. I win already, but, in fact, it got worse. Every variable was named after a different species of rodent. No lie.
if {$vole == $mouse} {
set temp_9 $weasel } else {
set temp_9 $stoat }
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Do I really care if Windows sells more units? As long as I have the ability to work on an operating system that isn't beat, let them eat cake!
Quest basically acquired Tora to kill-off one of the biggest "competitors" to their Toad product.
A GPL version is still available from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tora/
But, for how long? Will development continue?
It will be interesting to see how it shakes out for two reasons I can think of.
;)
1. Blogging by it's natures blurs the lines between public and private. Where those boundaries will end up isn't yet clear. I'll offer this preliminary hypothesis: sexual confessionals, ok; slagging off your employeer, not ok.
2. Googles sees some competitive advantage to being in "blog space." If bloggers decided Google is "big brother," they'll find some other means of expressing themselves.
Security through inutility
In the case I mentioned in my original post, it's a single J2EE platform, Weblogic. Switching application servers would be non-trivial because our system uses EJB 2.0 CMP/CMR extensively. We use Ejbgen, which has been great, but is targeted to the Weblogic platform. If I were starting again today I'd use xdoclet as it's more flexible and, I believe, switching platforms would be nearly as easy as switching OS's is now. This is wishful thinking with a small POC as the underpinning.
I'm not a Java zealot by any means, but Java deserves credit for what it does well and one of those things is reducing the importance of platform.
;) -- that runs on XP, Redhat, Mac/OS, Solaris >= 8, HP/UX and AIX 5L.
I've recently worked on a J2EE project with nearly 1 million lines of code -- they're all needed, really
Have there been platform related bugs? Yes.
Are there any open? No.
Are there some lurking? Maybe, but we've tested extensively.
Could any collection of jackasses build this app? No, sorry.
Is Java a magic bullet? No more than any other tool.
All over my neighborhood they're frequently named for the postal address of the home in which they reside, e.g., 15AMaple. Or so I've been told.
Obviously malware wouldn't be possible at all without PC's and, in large part, the Internet. However, who would argue that the solution to malware is doing away with PC's and the Internet. While malware is a real threat, insecurities should be addressed rather than stopping the march of features that add real value to the user.
I once had to debug a legacy TCL script that was serveral thousand lines in length. I win already, but, in fact, it got worse. Every variable was named after a different species of rodent. No lie.
if {$vole == $mouse} {
set temp_9 $weasel
} else {
set temp_9 $stoat
}