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You think Java will be discontinued?

• malkia 17y ago
  I dunno. Hard to tell, but I hope not. The language might suck, but the JVM is rocking!
• schizoidboy 17y ago
  I doubt it because IBM has too much skin in the game. Few people are aware, but IBM produces its own JDK: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/ https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/
  • davidw 17y ago
    For that matter, the Apache Software Foundation has a Java implementation called 'Harmony', although I'm not sure they're allowed to call it Java.
    • brianm 17y ago
      That is a sadly long and storied history, which Stephen Colebourne describes best: http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/sun_apache_ip_in_pictures http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/sun_apache_ip_in_pi... There is some hope that the legal shenanigans will stop once ORCL finishes taking ownership of JAVA.
  • felipe 17y ago
    BEA has its own JVM as well, and guess who bought BEA? http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jrockit/index.html http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jrockit/index.html By the way, I think JRockIt is the best JVM out there for server-side deployments. I've used both JRockIt and Sun's JVM on EC2, and JRockIt has much better memory management.