Posted by: altabel on: August 16, 2011
What does the future of Java look like? Many users see Java as stuck in a quagmire, while others go so far as to say Java is dead. Is it really so? Java, one of the long-dominant platforms for building enterprise solutions, has been steadily evolving since its first release in 1996, with a new [...]
Posted by: altabel on: June 27, 2011
Fewer than 30 percent of IT expenditures go toward developing new functionality; most of the expense is for managing legacy systems. Isn’t that a problem? It definitely is and Cloud Computing may provide a solution to it. “This is the fundamental reason that cloud computing is important. Unlike SOA, cloud computing is not a buzzword [...]
Posted by: altabel on: February 1, 2011
PHP and Java have somewhat different models of execution, contra posing shared-nothing processes to resident JVMs. But they have also many similarities, like their object-oriented model. I’ve seen many programmers starting to think that Java is old and verbose, and trying to jump on the bandwagon of scripting languages such as PHP and Ruby. But [...]
Posted by: altabel on: November 29, 2010
Nowadays it’s quite popular to complain of the state of Java. What is the right approach for the future of Java? At this point Java is still alive waiting to adapt to its new features – the new edition of Java will be in 2011 followed by “another in 2012.” There are said to be [...]
