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nobbis writes "Java 8 Early Access Release Candidate Available. Early Access Release Candidate 2 was made available for download last week. Lambda Functions and a new Date Time API are major features of Java 8, with some lesser known performance enhancements, which are discussed by Drew Stephens in his blog Atomic Number Implementation. Oracle's head Java Evangelist Simon Ritter gives a run through of new features in this presentation to the Virtual Java User Group. Project Jigsaw has been delayed again and is now scheduled for release with Java 9."
The bug report looks healthy and Java 8 is due for release on March 17th -- St. Patrick's Day.
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For recreational use only.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by elf on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:22PM
I must be the only one who likes Java here!! There is a lot of misconception and hate with java.
Java in a browser = crap
But who writes applets anymore anyway? There must be a lot of historic stuff out there but most browsers don't need Java. Chrome doesn't really have it because it only supports 32 bit and most people will have a 64 bit install. The only reason I use Java plugins at all is for citrix connections for remote working. Jsp java fx is another reason to use java in the browser but again I don't know of many popular websites who use these.
Java on the server = good
A lot of server development is done using java. This is because of a variety of reasons. Having done and seen c++ development I can say from my experience java is much better because its easier to do. The arguments about speed are also irrelevant now.
Java on the client = good and bad
If you are at a business who has internal systems java is an option for a GUI. It is quite powerful and very portable. Web start is also a good tool for updating. Swing isn't the best windowing tool kit but there are other alternatives.
One of the alternatives that I like to use is having an opengl gui for 3d graphics development. (www.lwjgl.com)
In terms of security holes and bugs these mostly effect the java in a browser installs and as I mentioned these are not exactly he majority of the web
(Score: 1) by mechanicjay on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:26PM
Yeah, I've softened to server side Java applications over the years. I still think they use an obnoxious amount of resources and don't scale particularly well, but they're good for portability and they pretty much just work....except when java looses it's mind for some reason and you need to restart the app -- and watch your server's processor peg for a minute or while it instantiates the jvm. On second though, Though I started out with positive intent on the is comment, I'm really not quite sure what's so great about server side java anymore.
Definitely keep it out of my browser though, except for critical LOB apps. Though, this is causing headaches around here, as with the security features and what not, some vendors aren't paying the protection money to get their jars signed. This makes you jump through a couple of hoops to get the dang things to run. The vendors who are signing their jars however, their apps work on the desktop/browser even with the java security settings set up to 11 -- which is pretty nice.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 1) by Zwerg_Sense on Tuesday February 18 2014, @10:23PM
Java on the server = really good.
Is this then also the opportunity to bitch about php?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:59AM
In my personal experience, java applications on the client machine (I'm thinking here mainly of jitsi and minecraft, as they're what I have the most recent personal experience with) tend to have issues with stability after a few days of runtime, and can wreak havoc in that regard much more than any other particular language. I can't say I have a strong understanding of the lower level goings on here, and it's entirely possible that it's just a matter of poorly written java being a bit of an epidemic (much like the issue with php), but it amounts to my having a bit of an aversion to using java when I can avoid it. That it provides a particularly easy malware vector into non-windows environments (write once, run anywhere!) doesn't exactly give it any added preference either.