Is Java Heading for a Fall?

Bruce Eckel commented in this post earlier this year that Java is reaching an evolutionary dead end. While hacking my way through the javac code + listening to the SOA lecture, I couldn’t help wondering if he’s right. Java might beĀ  too complex to evolve.

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Guy Wiener on November 25th 2008 in Programming

Ranting About XML

I’m now in a 3-day SOA course in John Bryce, courtesy of my IBM scholarship. I wanted to start ranting about SOA applications, but two things got in my way:

  1. Those smart guys at John Bryce have a switch that turns off the students’ monitors while the instructor talks, so I can’t surf the web too much during the course (If only it worked with students’ cell phones…)
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Guy Wiener on November 16th 2008 in Software Engineering