Where Eclipse was designed to shadow the Sun it turns out that Oracle is the one to do the job. I you go to www.sun.com you get  redirected directly to Oracle's web site , this is done for most of the products. James Gosling also got nostalgic this days (you can get coffee mug :) ).

There are couple of promises that Oracle made to the people :

Java One 2010 

JavaOne will be moved and joined  with Oracle Develop during Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco in September. Also JavaOne registration is as a standalone conference just as before.

 java.sun.com , Java.net, Project Kenai , BigAdmin

BigAdmin and  java.sun.com will eventualy be  re-architected into Oracle Technology Network .Java.Net will remain pretty much the same but Project Kenai, however,will no longer be available for public use (deadline is April 2nd 2010 )

Netbeans, MySQL and OpenOffice

Netbeans and netbeans.org will continue to be developed http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/htdocs/javatoolsfaq.html

That also apply for MySQL and OpenOffice .

Java User Groups will continue to play important part in the community and will not be merged with Oracle user groups. Also interesting is the blog post of Sun's  CEO Jonathan Schwartzon  where he wrote : 

"There's not a doubt in my mind Oracle's takeoff and ascent will be fast and dramatic. I wish the combined entity the best of luck, and have enormous confidence in the opportunity... Thank you for your support and commitment. I wish you all the best of luck building, taking advantage of (and likely wearing) the future!"

One thing that i believe to be true is that the future of Java and especially of JVM as platform for new languages like Closure, Groovy, JPython  is pretty much secured.
Here is a video for SUN

Posted at 04:31AM Feb 03, 2010 by Mite Mitreski in General  |  Comments[0]