Is Java Making a Comeback?

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Java comeback may be overhyped

Recently in Toronto I led a team in writing a complicated industrial application. We were bifurcated -- the database and front-end side was written in Smalltalk, which is still used a lot in heavy industry apps that can't tolerate bugs; while the communications interface (which had some tricky security components) was in Java. Java had been selected by an administrator who noted that Java programmers are a heck of a lot cheaper than Smalltalk programmers.

The Smalltalk side finished their work in a few weeks, while the Java side labored on and on and on. I finally called the Smalltalk team back, and they wrote the web side in 13 days in their language.

Is Java really making a comeback? Maybe some of the traditional, rock-solid OO languages ought to be reconsidered.

Posted by: kentfx_z   Posted on: 07/17/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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