The Question and Answer Board

[By Any Other Name]

Working for The Man? (Advice to a programme)
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6173644.html

Is Flash better than Java? (April 5th, 2007)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=286
Conclusion
For years the industry has waited for Sun to solve this problem and they haven't. Now, with Java 7 being open source, we could do something about it ourselves. Java experts could work together to build an open community around a new Java-based viewer (which we might not even want to call "Java"), and reverse the brain-drain away from Java technologies, preserving our investment in Java code and expertise.
Is Flash better than Java? No, just far better executed for some important use cases. Failing to address this, and allowing Flash and other alternatives to continue to grow and improve unchecked, is going to lead to competitive disadvantages or needless conversions down the road for Java developers. Instead of participating in endless arguments about esoteric subjects like closures and native code, competition from Flash should light a fire under the Java community and force it to respond with radically better user-facing solutions.