Oracle plans for Java

Here is an interesting article by Martijn Verburg and Ben Evans from TheServerSide. They spoke at the Scandinavian Developers Conference on Java 7 and polyglot programming on the JVM, and spent a long time talking to Henrik Stahl, the Oracle’s director of Java platform strategy – and an official spokesperson from Oracle. He’s able to pronounce on behalf of Oracle regarding Java. Henrik gave the authors many interesting insights.

Here the key points:

• Oracle is very committed to Java and sees it as essential to their future.
• An open, vibrant community is an essential part of that future, in fact it’s the community that’ll determine what standard technologies and techniques should go into the std platform (SE/EE).
• The JVM will remain open and free forever, and additional technologies will be incorporated and open-sourced as appropriate.
• Oracle is looking for willing partners in the community to engage and be part of the conversation – and they are listening.