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Its 1 Million now – Thank You

Its been a while I have written on the blog. I was kind of occupied with other studies! Suddenly I noticed a surge in bandwidth usage in my service provider’s report. Something is happening with javapapers. I quickly checked analytics report and found in recent months there is a surge in number of visitors to the website.

Ooh hah! We have crossed ONE MILLION Pageviews. Rarely I see blog authors sharing their site visitor statistics as it might affect the revenue plan. I am happy to share the little stats with you. Its all happening because of you. Thank you!
Its been a slow and steady growth till the last few months. Growth in number of direct visitors is significant in the last couple of months. Similarly from the last couple of months the total Pageviews growth are close to 100%. Almost I am experiencing an explosion in the last few months. This is a successful first step for a blogger and still long way to go. Thanks to Google for all the search traffic and many free tools.

There might be some silent period in between, but I will keep on coming back and annoy you! There is a lot to write about and I will keep on writing. More and more when I try to make it simpler and easier, in direct proportion I learn many new things.

















                

Apache (ASF) Resigns from JCP Committee

It’s one month old news as of today. Still if you are not aware, Apache software foundation one of the most respected group and it moves away from JCP citing license issues and Oracle’s strong hold on java.
Java benefited in many ways for more than 10 years from Apache. It chaired the JCP executive committee and one of the main drivers for java community process. Starting with famous Apache Tomcat, ASF has around 100 projects focusing on Java. This is really sad news for us. We the java community have happily used ASF’s products.
Five years back, can you name a decent project that was built without Apache Ant? Of course now it’s Apache Maven. Okay time to move on. But we believe in Apache’s ethics. I am sure that all those projects will flourish as always.
ASF resigning from JCP is now. In future, will there be JCP itself? Will there be same harmony?
Now we are living in a world of uncertainty pertaining Java. As a developer we may lose some freedom over Java and its path. But we hope java will live long. Losing some freedom, isn’t that everything?

JAG is Now Unemployed!

I recently noticed that James Gosling moved his blog from sun’s site to his own blog with a cool domain name. Also, I noticed in his bio that he is unemployed. Yes, you read it right, James Gosling is unemployed! Oracle bought Sun some time back. We are all eagerly watching the events aftermath. I would say this as one of the huge blows.
Though now java grows out of JSRs, he was the CTO of an important division. Of late his contributions to java as a language is debatable. But above all, he is James Gosling. He resigned on April 2nd. I am not aware of the happenings behind. He says, he is going to start ‘job hunting’.
Don’t get emotionally attached with the product, technology and anything else with you are working on. Only knowledge is yours. Beware, if it could happen to JAG, it could happen to ‘anyone’!


              

Now the SUN is Red

sun.com now redirects to oracle.com – oracle completes acquisition of sun.

Is it a happy news or sad news for sun customers? In particular java guys.

1. Oracle is a strong supporter of Eclipse – what will happen to NetBeans now?
2. Will oracle continue and endorse JCP (Java Community Process)?
3. Will MySQL development continue?
4. Will oracle continue OpenOffice?
5. Will Glassfish live in sync with oracle owned weblogic

Oracle’s press release says it will continue to support sun customers and invest more money on SPARC and MySQL. Until now, no negative news to worry about.
This $7.4 billion deal has become notorious on the above fronts. All the controvercy is surrounding MySQL and there is not much noise about what will happen to java!
There is a high possibility for a new commercial platform as oracle java. They know how to sell it as oracle is everywhere.

Mike Milinkovich, the Eclipse Foundation’s Executive Director:
“The Oracle acquisition of Sun and Java holds some real promise for resolving one of the simmering disputes in the Java community. Namely, the technical direction of modularity in Java. OSGi has been around for a number of years and has demonstrated its utility as a well architected Java modularity solution in domains ranging from mobile to enterprise middleware. OSGi has been adopted to varying degrees by every major Java licensor, including Oracle.
During the past couple of years, it looked like Sun was on a path of basically reinventing the wheel. With Oracle at the helm there is a chance that the Java platform will be moving forward with OSGi as the standardized model for modularity.”

But its one killer blow by Larry Ellison. Now the competition with MS$ becomes even stronger, and a new direct competition with IBM and so on.