Sun Microsystems wants to end the the developer hell known as J2ME fragmentation by bringing together their desktop Java and mobile Java implementations into one common platform. Competition from Microsoft with Silverlight and the compact .Net Framwork, Adobe with AIR and Flash Lite 3 might have been the reasons, but Sun Microsystems VP James Gosling “the father of Java” (pictures above) dismisses those claims saying that AIR is a petri dish for virii.
Let the best RIA platform win I say. Java has the edge right now due to penetration, but we’ve all seen what happens when the dominant market leader stagnates and fails to innovate. Time for the new kid on the block to teach an old man new tricks.
[Via: News.com]