Is Java on its Last Legs?

  Can Oracle reinvent Java

An interesting article appeared in InfoWorld this week...

Jeet Kaul, Oracle's vice president for client software, thinks Java suffers from an image problem: It's attracting the wrong crowd. "I would like to see people with piercings doing Java programming," he said at last week's EclipseCon 2010 in Santa Clara, Calif. But if Kaul is hoping Java will once again attract youthful, cutting-edge developers, as it did when it debuted in 1995, he may be in for a long wait.

Java has evolved from a groundbreaking, revolutionary language platform to something closer to a modern-day version of Cobol. In just 15 years, it has moved beyond maturity into a silver-haired stage of staid dependability. Java offers stability, not agility; reliability, not innovation. It's the language of large, enterprise software projects, ones that link legacy systems and promise high availability.

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