Comments on: JAG is Now Unemployed!

By: Ajai G

Ajai G — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 05:45:39 +0000

Now he is employed to Google.. Like to see an updated post on this too.

By: Tousif Khan

Tousif Khan — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:56:55 +0000

I am ready to hire JAG.
Let me know his expectations (package). :)

By: Apache (ASF) Resigns from JCP Committee

Apache (ASF) Resigns from JCP Committee — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:30:02 +0000

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By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:48:37 +0000

Rob Poole, first thing I didn’t intend any insult. I make my living using Java. Yes we know that Gosling is the father of java and I have great respect for him.

Let me rephrase what I mean. Though Gosling resigned himself (he chose to resign), all these happened because of Oracle’s takeover. Which was not in his control and that’s where the cheese moved away fits in.

Yes, he will do great things in future. Resigning from Oracle doesn’t mean that he has moved away from Java. Point is, factors that were out of his control forced him to take this decision. It doesn’t mean that he has lost something. But its other way around.

By: Rob Poole

Rob Poole — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:23:14 +0000

You have no idea how obnoxious the “cheese has moved” meme is. Not to mention the fact that I don’t think the parable you intend to invoke is at all relevant in this case, as Mr. Gosling’s departure has more to do with politics than with his position being outsourced or the Java technology stack changing in ways that he didn’t like.

Also, saying that Gosling’s contribution to the language in recent years is “debatable” is just a bunch of armchair quarterbacking, and comes off just a bit pretentious. Also a bit obnoxious. Gosling virtually created Java himself, and is widely regarded as the “Father of Java.” He was actively involved in the community process and in technology evangelism right up to his departure from Oracle. (HINT: When he refers to Oracle’s CEO as LPOD, aka Larry, Prince of Darkness, that should tell you something about the esteem in which James Gosling holds Oracle and Larry Ellison.)

Seriously, everything is there in Gosling’s blog, and in the public statements he’s made to the press. There’s no mystery here.

I think Mr. Gosling has earned the right to take a break from Java for the near term. Maybe he’s happy not playing the kind of role he was playing in the last few years. Maybe he’ll do something radical and create a brand new language, or maybe he’ll start a Java consulting company. Who knows? His future is bright.

But the cheese has most certainly NOT moved. It just grew mold and turned rancid, and Mr. Gosling could no longer stomach it, so he went elsewhere to find some better cheese.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:57:21 +0000

Dr. Marc J. Hadley is the specification lead for JSR 311, a Java API for RESTful Web Services, and is author of the Web Application Description Language (WADL).

He also left SUN http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mhadley/archive/2010/04/27/time-change