Its been a while I have written on the blog. I was kind of occupied with other studies! Suddenly I noticed a surge in bandwidth usage in my service provider’s report. Something is happening with javapapers. I quickly checked analytics report and found in recent months there is a surge in number of visitors to [...]
It’s one month old news as of today. Still if you are not aware, Apache software foundation one of the most respected group and it moves away from JCP citing license issues and Oracle’s strong hold on java. Java benefited in many ways for more than 10 years from Apache. It chaired the JCP executive [...]
I recently noticed that James Gosling moved his blog from sun’s site to his own blog with a cool domain name. Also, I noticed in his bio that he is unemployed. Yes, you read it right, James Gosling is unemployed! Oracle bought Sun some time back. We are all eagerly watching the events aftermath. I [...]
sun.com now redirects to oracle.com – oracle completes acquisition of sun. Is it a happy news or sad news for sun customers? In particular java guys. Oracle is a strong supporter of Eclipse – what will happen to NetBeans now? Will oracle continue and endorse JCP (Java Community Process)? Will MySQL development continue? Will oracle [...]
Its been 1.5 years I launched javapapers.com It was a great journey until now. I have utilized every bit of my free time to pursue this dream. I am very happy that this blog has surpassed 400000 page views. Thanks to Google for all the search results. It all started as just a personal log. [...]
Apache is celebrating 10 years of successful service to software industry. First ‘version 0.6.2′ released to public in April of 1995 and still standing tall. It is not only the sound knowledge and technology that made Apache survive successfully for these many years. It stands on top of its ideology and principles. Every computer user [...]
Do you know what is coming on October 30th, 2009? A comet like Shoemaker-Levy is going to hit Earth and break it into pieces! Or sky is going to fall on our heads. Nothing of that sort is going to happen. It is end of life for J2SE version 1.5 (JDK 1.5). That is, it [...]
