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Beyond Java Review by Hugh Watkins
Java's great, but what is next?
No doubt about it, Java is king of the hill right now, as of this review, I'm trying to hire 3 Senior Java/J2EE people in Atlanta and I'm not having much luck. Well if that's true then why am I reading a book about what's next after Java?? Bruce spells it out pretty clearly in this book, Java made developers much more productive than C++ developers for about 10 years now, but if you look at accomplishing some simple tasks like sticking a Web UI in front of a database it requires a lot of plumbing and knowledge.
Does it have to be that hard? Not really, he really keys in on Ruby and Ruby on Rails to meet the needs of middle tier, those just trying to get a database driven application in the web. One thing he did not present, but is a big issue driving PHP and Ruby on Rails is how hard putting a Java App is on a shared hosting platform; in fact I gave up and went with Ruby on Rails.
So where does that leave the hard-core Java/J2EE programmers? Well right now that leaves us at the enterprise level, where Java is still king talking to all the legacy systems. This is not a bad place to be though, since large companies are the ones with the big development budgets but you still need to look out for what's next.