Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
In a recent press conference, Sun mentioned that they will be making announcements regarding the bundling of the JRE in order to make distribution/installation of the JRE easier on other platforms, such as Linux.
Also, they mentioned they have one other major announcement regarding the JRE itself, possibly connected to Open Sourcing? Hmm, sounds interesting.
Sun will be making the announcements at JavaOne which starts May 16th in SF.
There is a post on the Artima site collecting questions for an upcoming interview with Linda DeMichiel, co-spec lead for JSR 220, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0.
Although there aren’t many questions there so far, the interview should be an interesting read once they’ve collected some questions.
The JSR220 Public Final Draft spec for EJB3.0 was approved by the committee involved in it’s development, so expect to see final compliant implementations coming along soon.
JBoss are of course already there with their implementation integrated into 4.0.x of their App Server, and have been tracking changes to the spec with incremental releases implementing the latest version of the spec as it was written.
Allen Holub has a hilarious column in the April 1st copy of SD Times titled “The End of the World as We Know it”, in which Gates is quoted as having seen the light after buying a Mac OS X MacBook Pro, and announces that it’s pointless to continue with development of Windows since Mac OS X is so far superior to Windows in terms of stability and usability.
Not only this, but Gates admits they’ve been pushing bad programming practices for years with MFC and .NET, plus Visual Basic was the biggest mess of a language ever developed, and therefore all Microsoft products will be rewritten in Java.
This is a great article… 🙂 I couldn’t find a link to it online, but check in the back of the paper edition is you have one laying around (sorry I know this is old news, but I only just picked up my copy and started reading it…)