As I’ve mentioned, in the case of Java/Scala, I’ve been using Jersey and have nothing but good things to say about it. Again, for Java/Scala I use JaxB, and it has worked splendidly. JaxB marshals and un-marshals JSON or XML data by creating a simple entity object (or POJO in Java speak) and adding a few lines of annotations. MORE >>

They had just completed a new product written in Java and it was broken on a Mac, and could I help? Java was new and known to be full of bugs, and anyway I was a C/C++ kind of guy, and I didn’t want to get involved in an academic fad language like Java. Everyone says small startups require focus. Learn to say “no!&#. MORE >>

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.)  .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. lorf: NET supports JAVA. MORE >>

Some developers use Java to create games. Additionally, Nokia consumers in China can pay for apps through operator billing (China Mobile and China Unicom). In general this means a higher rate of paid app downloads as the consumer is comfortable being billed by the operator instead of using a credit card. MORE >>

Mule is a Java-based platform that enables enterprise developers to perform a wide variety of integration tasks, from bringing new applications into production, to modernizing legacy applications and platforms, to enabling SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture). Check it out MORE >>