Oracle + Sun strategy on Java

The best news is that Java is safe. Nothing will change negatively. Oracle want’s to even invest more money to extend and innovate all Java standards. Oracle also announced there will be a JavaOne conference this year. (being co-located with Oracle Open World Se 19-23, 2010) They also announced additional JavaOne tours across Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Oracle will give full support on the existing Open Source model.

Java SE 7

Oracle announced that a new Java runtime is a top priority. A JDK 7 release is planned for 2010.

Java EE 6 will be evolved to address modularity, facilitating development productivity, toolprint optimizing profiles, support dynamic scripting, higher performance, deployment, and multi-core processor support. Oracle also plans to unify the Java SE and Java ME programming models and APIs. Mobile devices running on Java will use Oracle ADF as platform for enterprise applications.

Oracle plans to integrate Sun’s Hotspot (used inside Glassfish) with JRockit (used by WebLogic). This will be a part of the next JVM. This will result in higher performance, faster deployment and much better heap space memory management. (say goodbye to perm gem space problems)

Java development tools

When Oracle tells about Productivity With Choice, it now means literally as developer you are not bounded which IDE to choose to develop for certain applications. JDeveloper, Netbeans and Eclipse will be the main focus and all these IDE’s will get full support from the community, like characterized in the next picture.

If you are a Netbeans developer, you will still develop in Netbeans after the acquisition. The same for Eclipse and JDeveloper. Full stack support on all IDE’s.

Specifically, Oracle wants to improve NetBeans’ support for scripting, dynamic languages, and mobile development. JDeveloper will continue to be Oracle’s strategic IDE for enterprise Java development. They also offer an Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE) as a third option.

Licenses

Oracle says there will be no license changes to any of the Java developer tools.

Application Server Strategy

The key success on a high quality Java EE application server is

• measurability
• flexibility
• manageability

For the enterprise level WebLogic provides all this thanks to coherence and clustering / grid control. Also Glassfish will stay the number one blueprint reference on Java EE, and stays open source. The goal is to have one web-tier where WebLogic and Glassfish are integrated. Oracle strives for a total integrated solution where on the one side we have WebLogic and Glassfish supporting the web-tier, and on the other side Toxedo, linked together with Oracle Coherence, all running on Java JVM / JRockit / Hotspot.