Support Forums: Message List - Java: Nothing Without the Community http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Fri, 24 May 2013 03:50:11 -0400 hard to find? hardly http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61543 I don't think the Head First book would help at all - they won't be able to read that either.

As someone suggested above, they should hand their badge to someone else.

]]> Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:13:24 -0500 Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:13:24 -0500 Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:13:24 -0500 Dec 25, 2010 Henry Dominik 0 Leaving Java http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61543 I am a passionate developer who discovered Java in college. Back in high-school i code in Pascal or Delph mainly and I tried some other alternatives, C++, C# , PHP and finally Java. For me, Java was a love at first sight, in college I discovered the...]]> Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:09:00 -0500 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:09:00 -0500 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:09:00 -0500 Dec 24, 2010 Stelian Popa 0 hard to find? hardly http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61543 Amen,  brother.

]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:19:20 -0500 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:19:20 -0500 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:19:20 -0500 Dec 22, 2010 William Kemp 0 hard to find? hardly http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61543 Maybe some one can write a 'Head First' book on downloading, un/installing java!

]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:12:22 -0500 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:12:22 -0500 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:12:22 -0500 Dec 22, 2010 Saad Khawaja 1 Google could just pay oracle http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61543 Seriously, google could just pay oracle a few million and make android the java mobile platform. The argument can go either way.

]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:11:19 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:11:19 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:11:19 -0500 Dec 21, 2010 peter lin 0 So what http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61543 Very nicely put. Unfortunately, Larry doesn't give a shit. It's just all about the benjamins in short term - buy out every valuable piece of software and then make the suckers pay. Simple as that. I think there's no hope for community-driven java...]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:10:40 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:10:40 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:10:40 -0500 Dec 21, 2010 Wojciech Kudla 1 hard to find? hardly http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61543 I've noticed a lot of people being unable to do complex tasks in java lately - with such tasks being "uninstall" and "install" and "download." This is NOT a good sign.

...]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:33:25 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:33:25 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:33:25 -0500 Dec 21, 2010 Joseph Ottinger 3 hard to find? hardly http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61543 Really, it takes you a long time to find the download link? I went to http://java.sun.com (or Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:11:21 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:11:21 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:11:21 -0500 Dec 21, 2010 John Stegeman 4 Losing the stream on Java ? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61543 I am an hard core Java fan for the several years, one of the best invention by Sun for IT world. But lately I have been so concerned about the future of Java, especially ever since it bought by Oracle and making as Open Source. Earlier when I want to...]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:20:39 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:20:39 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:20:39 -0500 Dec 21, 2010 Praveen Allam 5 Criticizing Oracle seems to be the latest fashion http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61543 I will keep it short.

...]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:48:55 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:48:55 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:48:55 -0500 Dec 21, 2010 kazi abdullah saikat 0 No need to give up at all http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61543 I for one haven't given up on Java. I feel Java is in much better hands now than the final days at Sun. To me a stable and reliable JVM and platform is much more important than tail chasing. I happen to love the diversity of open source, even if it's...]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:37:02 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:37:02 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:37:02 -0500 Dec 21, 2010 peter lin 0 Java: Nothing Without the Community http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61543 James Sugrue wrote up "Java: Nothing Without the Community" on DZone, basically namechecking Stephen Colebourne's " Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:37:33 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:37:33 -0500 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:37:33 -0500 Dec 21, 2010 RMayhew 11