Sun steals the show.. and I am back

It isn't a good sign to pop in once a while and check if my blog still exists or blogger.com has decommissioned it citing inactivity. So made up my mind today with some reminder from one of my friends to come and scribble.

Been doing good albeit hectic schedule. 2008 hasn't revolutionized my day to day life yet, so nothings much changed from where i was earlier :).

Came across the latest developer.com awards here :-
Dev.com

Seems Sun products have won in most of the category. Good to see that the Scripting feature for Java has won the best award. Hoping that next year, closures will be in the race as well for this.

Java has undergone a complete facial remake in terms of features and extensions. With Java 5, the emphasis was not only on just API extension but to include in a lot of language extension, developer friendly typing features as well. Generics is one good example. Though many argue that generics is not quite robust and has some fundamental flaws , from a developer perspective, i think it satisfies what it was meant to. Strict typing was a major difference that put Java in top of many dynamic pgmning languages and by making it compile time, genrics helps handle unneccesary surprises.

At any case, the point I was trying to say was Java SE 6 has also won in the developer.com category. And with Java 7 including some better functional programming practices within it, i will place my bet on it.