Java, while a successful platform for 19 years and running, certainly faces challenges, a high-ranking Oracle official said on Sunday. These challenges will be met by the planned Project Jigsaw modularization of the platform.
Oracle officials at Sunday afternoon’s technical keynote presentation at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco hailed development of both the standard (SE) and enterprise editions (EE) of Java. In frank commentary, Oracle’s Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java platform group, said Java faces several “big picture” problems: “One is that it doesn’t scale down to small devices very well. Another is that it’s difficult to maintain platform security. The internal security mechanisms of the platform are really quite brittle and error-prone.”
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