Java 8 is late, but only a little

Java 8 is late, but only a little

During the keynote at the JavaOne Java strategy has to have Adam Messinger, vice president of development to announce the Fusion middleware, that will move the release date for Java 8th Held as scheduled late 2012, the new version will probably only six months later, in summer 2013 indicate. In the summer, and previously published repeatedly shifted the Java 7 had about 9 million Java developers, Oracle, has more than four and a half years to wait. In return for the later release date like the Java developer with Oracle to use that extra time for an extension of the feature package. The projects now under discussion appear to be Jigsaw and lambda as well as the interoperability set by JavaScript.

Oracle receives reinforcement from the operators of micro-blogging service Twitter, which announced itself to the OpenJDK and the Java Community Process (JCP) to join. Java has, according to Rob Benson, director of Runtime Systems on Twitter, a great importance for the service.

The same is probably true for JavaFX at Oracle. According to Messinger, the RIA-technology (Rich Internet Application) to be the long-term strategic client platform for Java. This also applies to mobile devices. This is supportive which was presented at the conference, JavaFX 2.0 - starting with the visual components - are sooner or later as a fully open-source software. Interestingly during the keynote was a JavaFX game that ran on both the iPad as well on Android Samsung Galaxy Tablet, a Linux device. JavaFX has done so far is only 2.0 for Windows, the OS X version is currently beta-quality.

Regarding the Java Mobile Edition (Java ME), there seems to be Oracle's strategy, this slow but sure to dispose of. In other words, like Oracle Java ME and Java SE, "normalize". In a first step, the version numbers are adjusted so that the next release will be called Java ME 7th In a second step, it probably embedded Java SE 8, a kind of subset of Java SE.

Ultimately, Oracle runs several tracks here, because with the newly announced project developer should avatar hybrid applications in the Java and HTML 5 can be created for mobile devices - according to Messinger Whether they are here for a HTML5 integration for Java. The Java code can be directly on the DOM functions (Domain Object Model) to access and manipulate HTML. The whole thing runs on the iPhone even if the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) embedded in the application, which does not violate the requirements of Apple's AppStore.

Still remains the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE). In the opinion of Cameron Purdy, Oracle's vice president for Java EE, Enterprise Server, etc. The Java platform will ultimately be to the standard in the Platforms as a Service (PaaS). In his opinion, get the slogan "Freedom of Choice" slowly but surely makes sense. To cloud-enabled, Java EE features such as multi-tenancy and elasticity (horizontal scaling) would support.

Finally Developer Preview is now an official of the JDK 1.7 for Mac OS X ready. The official release is in the second quarter of 2012 for developers and end users to follow a little later. Also, it is a first beta for Oracle's open source NetBeans IDE 7.1. The new version has received particular changes for the development with JavaFX 2.0.