Can Java Be Saved? Part One
Part One
I’m on a mission to save java. Let me be clear here, though. I’m not trying to save it for large java shops. They seem to think the low productivity and high complexity of J2EE are a normal part of the IT experience. I’m also not doing this for the vendors who are trying to make money from my art and my sweat. They make decisions based on an economic model that does not seem to include me. I don’t want to give them any money or any credibility anymore. No, I’m trying to save java for me, just me.
You see, there was a time when I really enjoyed java. It was the first modern language that was cross-platform and had garbage collection. It was not as dynamic and purely object-oriented as I hoped but people would pay me to use it and it was OK. I even wrote some big things that made people lots of money and created jobs. It was good.
But, now it is not. Can I make a java programming environment that I like again? Are there technologies and development environments that will add some joy back to the process of making java web applications?
Frankly, I don’t know yet. Stay tuned and we’ll see.