Don't Sleep Through Java-Rise!

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Don't Sleep Through Java-Rise!

by Andre Leclerc

March 8, 2001


Everyone loves a sunrise, especially some of you techies who work all night… So what is a Java-rise? It is the advent of Java (and all of its associated bells and whistles) as the computing platform of choice for any new web-based software development. Java is not the work of Sun alone (so I can’t call it a Sun-rise, tempting as that is) but rather the work of a whole lot of folks, standards bodies, companies and products that have managed to work together over the last five years and have defined a stable distributed computing environment that will be stable for the next decade.

Java-rise will occur over the next two to three years as corporate software architects, project managers, developers and designers make the switch from their present computing platform to the J2EE standard. Let’s look at the reasons for this Java-rise.

First and foremost, there is industry agreement on the J2EE standard platform. This means the end of the code wars and the endless arguments about C++ being better than Smalltalk or Java--yadda, yadda, yadda.



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