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February 23, 2006
JDJ RIP
I receive several trade rags about technolgy. Most of them get stacked up in a pile by my desk that I eventually go through after they start cluttering the office. When going through the latest round of magazines recently I noticed Java Developer's Journal lead story, What Is POJO Programming? LOL... I am wondering if any other Java programmers find this amusing!? What is POJO programming?? It is what we have been doing all along!! It is vanilla Java... public class Blah ...
That JDJ published this as the lead story tells something about the Java platform... it is no longer interesting to talk about!! This is not to say Java is not an important technolgy. On a timeline, I actually view Java as in its Golden Years. It is very mature, it has a rich ecosystem of tools and libraries, and will remain a central technology in enterprise software for many years to come. But...
It is not interesting. I tried to read a couple other articles in this JDJ issue... one on the Seam project from JBoss and another about Spring; I was so bored though after the first couple pages that I coudn't even finish the articles.
The JDJ will probably continue to exist for several more years, but for me it'll likely go straight from my mailbox to the trade rag graveyard in the sky. It used to be fun to read about new things in the platform. However, now that we are back to reading about java.lang.Object, I hope JDJ will rest in peace.
Posted by harris at February 23, 2006 05:05 PM