Comments on: Will you continue to use Sun projects ?

By: Kevin Rodrigues

Kevin Rodrigues — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:00:33 +0000

I hope Oracle continues providing support for these amazing open source projects. It’s true we know the value of things when we are on the verge to lose them.

By: CertPal

CertPal — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:32:38 +0000

@Tahir Emre Oracle has promised continued support. The PDF which Ryan has linked to mentions this. How long this support will last and how much development effort will come out of it is an open question. It must be a tough question for Oracle too since they now have different projects which offer solutions along the same lines. Netbeans / Jdeveloper, Glassfish / Weblogic, Mysql / Oracle etc etc.

By: Tahir Emre

Tahir Emre — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:07:09 +0000

I’ll use if they are going to be supported in the future. There is no choice in the poll for this

By: CertPal

CertPal — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:49:22 +0000

@Ryan de Laplante Thanks for the registration link. I did read the statement about sun software offered by Oracle. @Alexis MP No problem @Rick I hope they continue to support these projects too. It would be interesting to see what they do with the existing solutions and the acquired ones.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:05:00 +0000

I hope Oracle continues to develop these assets, especially NetBeans and GlassFish. I’ve recently been looking at JEE development comparing NetBeans and JBoss, and I’ve been amazed at the capabilites of NetBeans 6.8. I really feel this is the closest Java has been to Microsoft– ever! (Dev Studio makes development work so easy. NetBeans 6.8 is the closest I’ve seen in the Java workspace.)

Yet Oracle has their own JEE frameworks and toolset. Let’s see what they do…..

Happy Coding,

Rick

By: Alexis MP

Alexis MP — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:44:27 +0000

Thanks for your answer. I think we’re all missing data about the future of these projects. Me included.

By: Ryan de Laplante

Ryan de Laplante — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:26:33 +0000

Look here for some information on the positive future of Sun products at Oracle:

http://regmedia.co.uk/2009/10/30/oracle_statement_sun_software.pdf

This Wednesday (Jan 27 2010), Oracle will be hosting a five hour live webinar detailing the Sun + Oracle strategy. Sign up here:

http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=108481

By: CertPal

CertPal — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:23:07 +0000

@Alexis MP Support for these open source projects is a question on everyone's lips. They are great, no doubt and people love to use them. But how long the support will last and what further developments will come out of them after the acquisition is an uncertainty. I read a few comments here and there about developers wanting to move to other open source projects. I on the other hand am thinking the opposite. I want to try out the new glassfish V3 for EE 6 because it looks cool so far. I am trying to find out if there is apprehension out there if any about current / future adoption of these projects.

By: Alexis MP

Alexis MP — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:53:04 +0000

Why would you not? Not a rhetorical question.