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Open Source Java = Intelegent Development Environments

It should not be surprising that Microsoft actually harmed software development and the US IT industry with its tools and methods.

A brief review of the rhetoric its marketing department put out involving Corel is all that is needed. Corel not only was distributing a word processor based on XML (a subset of SGML) long before Microsoft, but it also had Object PAL/ Paradox running in a virtual machine (called a runtime at the time) long before Java and was distributing Dragon Dictate (the speech recognition AI-based software) with its tool bundle. Corel did eventually settle the product disparagement law suit it filed but I do not think the lesson has been learned.

We should have been chatting with computers like in the film 2001 by now. But with this open source Java perhaps the industry can catch up with the implied promise of the film to human kind.

Take for example the WebSphere Application Client

This is a 600 megabyte Java JVM built around the IBM WebSphere Application server. You load the virtual machine via an installation wizard and provide it the default host. The client is needed for mail services and Enterprise Java beans. It is a command line JVM and it also has a Java Control panel of its own. (the client machine will show two Java Control Panels if Sun Java is also loaded.)

See the future. By creating its own JVM IBM takes Java beyond small appliances and cute web calculator like presentations and turns it to strategic advantage for the governments and corporations who use it.

Lets give an example. A police officer pulls over a violator. Before the officer opens his door his mobile device has gathered data from MySpace/Internet, InterPol, NCIC, local and state court systems, prisons, homeland security etc and the mobile device has started up an expert system which will guide the officer's behavior regarding the contact. The same kind of thing would be true for physicians dealing with patients, and judges making rulings, investors selecting stocks, consumer purchases, airplane ticket purchase, car repair.

Lets remember that IBM's Java development tool was based on the development environment for SmallTalk, an AI language. Now lets do the same thing with PDC Prolog's development environment and other "Intelegent development environments". Open source Java makes that possible. The Sun really shines. Microsoft's visual tools could be improved to include open source Java.

The C sharp killer application.

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 03/20/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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