Java’s Future Exist in the Enterprise
January 28, 2011 by Frank Salinas · Leave a Comment
This comes as no surprise to me as in my opinion the primary strength of Java lies with it’s enterprise abilities.
Forrester’s authors say that its report, “The Future of Java,” is not a Java obituary. Java is still dominant in the enterprise but no programming language has retained a central position through multiple platform changes. Java will evolve just as Assembler, C and COBOL did. More so, the core message here is for application developers and how applications are distributed.
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Oracle controls the future of Java but its road map has been accepted and that means no major disruptions for enterprise customers. But it’s clear that Java is no longer the center for technology innovation. The innovation is now on the platforms and with Ruby and open environments such as HTML 5.
via Why The Future of Java is with Large Customers, not Innovative, Young Developers.
Is Java Losing Appeal?
October 18, 2010 by Frank Salinas · 5 Comments
My theory goes like this: Good java developers are hard to find because fewer and fewer of them are being created. New developers are not choosing java to “cut their teeth” on. And I suspect that coming from whatever they are coming from, java doesn’t look appealing.
via I think I figured out why good Java developers are so hard to find « I love groovy.
The excerpt above came from a blog post I read this morning. It made me ask the question: Is Java on it’s way to being phased out by newer JVM languages? Read more
JavaOne and Oracle Develop 2010
July 15, 2010 by Frank Salinas · Leave a Comment
Tomorrow is the last day for early-bird registration discounts.
Poll: Which MVC Framework Do You Use?
April 30, 2010 by Frank Salinas · 2 Comments
At work we’re looking into swapping out Struts with a different MVC framework. I’m curious as to which frameworks are most in use today. Please complete the poll below and feel free to post comments/recommendations on the subject. Share the link and spread the word, the more data received the better!
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Java Web Services: Getting Started
March 9, 2010 by Frank Salinas · Leave a Comment
When it came time for me to tackle my first web service implementation I ran into a lot of problems. Here I will write a series of articles to address the questions and problems I encountered in hopes of helping you get started in developing web services faster than I did. The following example will show you how to create a web service using JAX-WS and packaged as a servlet. Read more
The EJB Specification, Concurrency, and Batch Processing
March 1, 2009 by Frank Salinas · 1 Comment
The EJB specification does not leave much room for implementing concurrent processing within the EJB container. This poses a problem to developers who need to implement solutions for processing long running batch processes as part of the business logic of an application. The EJB specification states the following:
The enterprise bean must not attempt to manage threads. The enterprise bean must not attempt to start, stop, suspend, or resume a thread, or to change a thread’s priority or name. The enterprise bean must not attempt to manage thread groups.
These functions are reserved for the EJB container. Allowing the enterprise bean to manage threads would decrease the container’s ability to properly manage the runtime environment.
