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Evolving the Java Platform

Sun fellow gives a look beyond Java 5.0 through Mustang, Dolphin and more

By Graham Hamilton

May 15, 2005 — (Page 1 of 6)
The Java platform continues to evolve at a brisk pace. More than 100 new specifications are under development in the Java Community Process as well as many smaller enhancements and refinements. This article highlights some of the key themes and directions for the next releases of Java 2 Standard Edition and Java 2 Enterprise Edition.

With so many new Java initiatives going on, it’s important to keep some high-level perspectives on what we at Sun and in the JCP are trying to achieve with the Java platform. For me, the key high-level value is increasing developer productivity. The Java community isn’t creating new specifications for the fun of it; we’re doing this because we believe they will help developers more easily create powerful commercial applications. But we need to do more than just create stacks of specifications; we also need to keep a clear focus on making them easy to use.

As part of both J2SE 5.0 and J2EE 5.0, we introduced a new driving theme: “Ease-of-Development.” The purpose of this theme is to continually remind us of the key root principle of developer productivity. It doesn’t matter how powerful our APIs are—if they are too hard to use, they are not effectively helping developers. We need to continually balance power, richness and simplicity.

J2SE 5.0 and Beyond
We delivered the J2SE 5.0 “Tiger” release last fall. It was our largest core Java update since JDK 1.0, and it introduced significant updates to both the Java language and the core platform APIs.

One feature in Tiger that is going to be enormously important to enterprise developers is the introduction of an annotation mechanism into the Java language. These annotations permit a form of declarative programming, where developers can specify desired behavior by marking source code with annotations rather than having to explicitly code up behavior. This style of annotation-driven programming is going to be a core value of the whole Java platform going forward.

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