4Use OSGi to Make Java a Great Cloud Platform Embrace the Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) as the modularity standard and use that to drive Java as a great platform for the cloud.

As Oracle slowly relinquishes more and more control of the Java Platform to the open-source community, one starts to wonder if being stewards of the Java Platform was more of a curse or a blessing.

It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle announced today the general availability of Java SE 9, the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 and the Java EE 8 Software Development Kit.

While arguing about programming languages with someone they asserted that Java in Windows (or x86 Linux) will always suffer a significant performance penalty compared to a SPARC architecture ...