Denis’ Blog

Java is a 15 years old language. And 95% of java projects still have bad productivity and many, many, many architectural pitfalls. Too much academic, too much frameworks, too much options, whatever the reasons are, it is demonstrated quite every day.

Some people help us see the light. Of course some of my beloved Java architects here .But in the outside world we can see good design and good execution. Want to be convinced that Java can be done the right way, helping fast features implementation and high scalability at the right cost? A few examples:

• Jive Forums & Clearspace from Jive Software. These guys know their stuff.
• Jira & Confluence from Atlassian
• Alfresco from…well, Alfresco
• Nuxeo 5 from..well, Nuxeo.

And there is one big, big, big site relying on Java: LinkedIn. Maybe the  fact a French designed the beast helped a lot (ok, for soccer it is over for us guys, let us dream that we are software designing the right way ). Have a look at their presentations.

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No Hibernate, Agile methodology and scalability in mind. Great stuff.

BTW: I’ve connected yesterday to Linkedin, it was down for a few minutes. You can’t have 100% availability. Except of course in PHP….. Just kidding :-p.

Google today announced that Google Docs, the Web based word processor of Google, will go off line in the coming weeks

This is a long awaited news. Security and off line usage are two things that prevent Google Apps to go mainstream in business. Security is now managed with Google APIs that enable full integration with corporation Identity Management solution (especially SAML based). In a few weeks, you will be able to use Google word processor in the train, in the plane…well..anywhere…

Add on top of that that Firefox 3, the next release of Firefox due to June, will integrate off line mode, probably compatible with Google Gears, the Google off line engine (based on open source database SQlite), and you have a great view of what is coming. The great war.

Microsoft and Symbian of course. Have you noticed the mindshare that Android and the iPhone took in, well, a few months? Pretty sure it will last. That’s a good news. I am still waiting for my Linux based, 3G, dual card and open sourced mobile phone. And I feel it is not that far away…