The furore surrounding Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems has been further calmed this week by James Gosling, the father of Java technology. Gosling left Oracle a few weeks ago, but still found the time to praise new Java technology that is now under the ownership of the software giant.
On his blog on Monday, Gosling promoted the NetBeans 6.9 IDE and JavaFX 1.3 multimedia platform. He wrote:
"The NetBeans folks are getting pretty far along in the release cycle for 6.9, and the FX folks got their 1.3 release out. Between the two they've done a nice bundle that I've been playing around with for a while.
“There's a whole laundry list of improvements. The biggest thing you'll notice in NetBeans is OSGi support and a bunch of improvements in the 'platform' support (using the core of NetBeans as the basis of your own applications). It's getting pretty sweet.
"On the FX side, the performance boosts are wonderful; as are all the new UI components and the tooling in NetBeans to support it."
Oracle has received criticism for its acquisition of Sun and therefore Java technology, but senior Oracle staff have defended the move and pledged to support and develop Sun technology further than Sun could at the end of the company’s life.
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