Oracle continues to work out its strategy to move Java forward. Since closing its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010, Oracle has moved quickly and aggressively to lay its claim to Java, considered “the crown jewel” of the acquisition. Not only has Oracle defended Java by filing suit against Google for allegedly infringing Oracle’s Java patents in creating the Android operating system, the database giant has put in work to improve its standing with the community and to give developers what they need. JavaOne 2011, held in San Francisco Oct. 2 to 5, featured increased Oracle outreach and acceptance from the community, as well as the unveiling of new road maps and technology. During the JavaOne 2011 strategy keynote, Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, along with Adam Messinger, vice president of development for Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Cameron Purdy, vice president of development for Oracle, outlined plans for the Java platform and showcased product demonstrations illustrating the latest Java technology innovations. Rob Benson, director of Runtime Systems at Twitter, announced that Twitter has just joined both the OpenJDK Community, as well as the Java Community Process (JCP). Twitter will be collaborating with Oracle and the other members of the JCP and the OpenJDK Community to help evolve the Java platform. IBM, Intel and Red Hat, as well as ARM Holdings, GetJar and Harris IT Systems, also appeared on stage to demonstrate their ongoing support for Java technology. This slide show looks at some of the top Java moves Oracle has made in 2011.
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JDK 7
Oracle released JDK 7, available for Windows, Linux, Solaris and embedded platforms. Mac OS X Developer Preview also was released.
OpenJDK Continues to Grow
IBM, Apple, SAP, Azul and—most recently—Twitter have joined OpenJDK.
Team Integration
Oracle has successfully integrated its Java development teams, JRockit and HotSpot.
JDK 8 Road Map
Oracle officials said the JDK 8 project will be released in the summer of 2013, with the addition of Project Jigsaw, Project Lambda, JavaFX 3.0 and more.
JavaFX 2.0
JavaFX 2.0 went GA in 2011, providing a migration path for Java client user interface (UI) technologies. JavaFX 2.0 is an advanced Java UI platform for enterprise business applications and the next step in the evolution of Java as a premier rich client platform.
Like a Bridge Over Java
Oracle has set a strategy to bridge Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) and Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) platforms, with synchronized releases and Java ME APIs to run on Java SE. This move is for full coverage of embedded vertical markets. The Java Platform will cover all CPU/footprint variants. There will be dedicated APIs for vertical market segments.
Java Cloud
Oracle announced Oracle Public Cloud, with a proposed Java platform as a service (PAAS) offering. The Oracle Java Cloud Service is an enterprise platform for developing, deploying and managing business-critical Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications based on Oracle WebLogic Server. It supports development and deployment from multiple Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), including Oracle JDeveloper, NetBeans and Eclipse.
Java EE 7
Oracle officials say Java Platform Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7) is in the works. The proposed Java EE 7 shows Oracle prepping Java EE for the cloud with service definitions and service provisioning to enable Java as PAAS. It also will enable multi-tenancy in APIs. Java EE 7 is well underway with 10 active Java Specification Requests (JSRs) being worked on through the JCP by more than 20 participating companies and represented by hundreds of engineers.
HTML5 and Java
With Project Avatar, Oracle announced plans to improve the interoperability between HTML5 and Java technology in order to simplify the development of rich client/server interaction for cloud-based applications.
NetBeans
Extending the support for Java standards, NetBeans IDE 7.1 Beta provides support for JavaFX 2.0, enabling the full compile, debug and profile-development cycle for JavaFX 2.0 applications. The NetBeans IDE now has more than 1 million active users with developers increasingly selecting the NetBeans IDE to rapidly create desktop, Web and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as with PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, and C/C++.
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Oracle continues to work out its strategy to move Java forward. Since closing its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010, Oracle has moved quickly and aggressively to lay its claim to Java, considered “the crown jewel” of the acquisition. Not only has Oracle defended Java by filing suit against Google for allegedly infringing Oracle’s Java patents in creating the Android operating system, the database giant has put in work to improve its standing with the community and to give developers what they need. JavaOne 2011, held in San Francisco Oct. 2 to 5, featured increased Oracle outreach and acceptance from the community, as well as the unveiling of new road maps and technology. During the JavaOne 2011 strategy keynote, Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, along with Adam Messinger, vice president of development for Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Cameron Purdy, vice president of development for Oracle, outlined plans for the Java platform and showcased product demonstrations illustrating the latest Java technology innovations. Rob Benson, director of Runtime Systems at Twitter, announced that Twitter has just joined both the OpenJDK Community, as well as the Java Community Process (JCP). Twitter will be collaborating with Oracle and the other members of the JCP and the OpenJDK Community to help evolve the Java platform. IBM, Intel and Red Hat, as well as ARM Holdings, GetJar and Harris IT Systems, also appeared on stage to demonstrate their ongoing support for Java technology. This slide show looks at some of the top Java moves Oracle has made in 2011.