Java passed the 10-year milestone this May. DevX asked developers to reflect on the language's first decade, assess where it stands today, and speculate where it's going. The diversity of responses—including industry notables from within Sun, IBM, BEA, and Borland—indicates that Java is as vital as ever.
by Glen Kunene, Senior Editor
June 22, 2005
ay 2005 marked 10 years since Sun first introduced Java technology to the world. In the decade to follow, the language begat a platform, which begat a community, which begat an entire ecosystem, in which software players, open source projects, and individual programmers alike all thrive. Today, some 4.5 million developers and some 1.4 billion devices all use Java.
But we won't bore you with yet another retelling of the Java success story. Instead, DevX distributed a questionnaire (one question for each year of existence) to capture personal accounts of the Java experience from the people most involved with the technology—developers. Respondents ran the gamut from consultants and authors to CTOs and senior technologists at BEA, IBM, and Sun.
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ay 2005 marked 10 years since Sun first introduced Java technology to the world. In the decade to follow, the language begat a platform, which begat a community, which begat an entire ecosystem, in which software players, open source projects, and individual programmers alike all thrive. Today, some 4.5 million developers and some 1.4 billion devices all use Java.
