The adventures of Coccobill » Eclipse http://tech.poglianis.net Opinions... because I choose. Always ! Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:21:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Java on the desktop is already here! http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/10/26/java-on-the-desktop-is-already-here/ http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/10/26/java-on-the-desktop-is-already-here/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:25:09 +0000 stefano http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/10/26/java-on-the-desktop-is-already-here/ I have been surprised when I read this article: James Gosling (Sun) : « Java sur le poste client n’est pas à la hauteur aujourd’hui ». It is in French, so I translate the title here:

James Gosling (Sun) : « Java is not ready today for the desktop »

Strange, isn’t it ? The “father of Java” who, 15 years after, makes such a big statement!Well, the reality is different, as we all know.
Eclipse is there and it is there since sometime now. Eclipse is no more only an “open development platform”, but has become ‘a platform for building and deploying rich client applications”: it is called Eclipse RCP. Many people are developing rich Java applications for the desktop (and for the mobile market also) based on Eclipse RCP:

And, not least, IBM is building the new generation of its products based on Eclipse RCP!

The Universal Managed Client for SOA, called Lotus Expeditor. A platform for building enterprise applications and enterprise mashups that bring the power of SOA towards the desktop and devices

The new Lotus Notes 8 client, which brings the possibility of building Composite Applications centered around the collaboration tools

Lotus Sametime, which provides a new frontier for Unified Collaboration and Communication

Sun may not be ready. But the world is not waiting in order to make Java evolving! And Java is bigger than a trade symbol.

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