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There appears to be over-reacting and fearism concerning a recent decision to cancel the DLJ project, and subsequently Ubuntu's plan to remove DLJ-based Java packages from their repository.  I'm totally out of the loop of this except for a couple things.  As the former DLJ Project Lead I was still vaguely involved with the management of that project, and recently there was an...

Node (a.k.a. Node.js) is a new software development platform where the main talking points are:- a) Server-side JavaScript executing on a fast JavaScript virtual machine (Chrome's V8); b) Asynchronous execution model that's claimed to be light-weight and highly scalable; c) A no-threads mantra that synergistically works with the asynchronous model to make each connection low cost for high scalability; d) Excellent network I/O event handling event dispatching asynchronous runtime library that makes it amazing easy to develop succinctly implemented server software; e) Growing ecosystem of add-on modules and web frameworks and more; f) Excellent module system and package management system; cures dependency hell

 Last week Apple released their latest product destined to change the world (the iPad).  At least that's what they want us to believe.  Perhaps the biggest controversy over the thing is the lack of Flash capability.  However this being java.net I have to wonder out loud, where is Java capability, and more importantly why isn't as much controversy being raised over Java being missing? But I think we all can enumerate some reasons for both being missing.  And it's worth it for the Java community to ponder this issue.