Today I visited one of Java User Group (JUG) at the JAOO conference – the “Next next step for the Java ecosystem.” There were three person in panel James Gosling, Kevlin Henney and Dave Thomas and they all three confirmed on the misfortune fact that the Java Community Process (JCP) is not working properly or as Rod Johnson (member of JCP board) put it in his session “Where Next for Enterprise Java”. Compare the number of Java Specification Request (JSR) produced this year with the number produced 2-3 years back.
And one can really ask when JDK 7 will be released and how much really will be included of the project Coin (minor language feature change), Jigsaw (effort to make Java more modular) and Lambda (bring closure to Java)?!?
And I guess this fact is the why there today are so many new language created for the JVM – the community is responding and will not wait.
But there is rescue to the help and as James put it, if you cannot wait use Scala.
James Gosling
http://nighthacks.com/jag
Kevlin Henney
http://blogs.stickyminds.com
http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/
http://curbralan.com/
Dave Thomas
davethomas.net
eclipse.org
agilealliance.org
Rod Johnson
http://blog.springsource.com/author/rodj/
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