Not too much news, but expected and reassuring for those of us who live at least partially in JVM-land. I have been programming since the 1960s and the JVM has been the most important programming technology that I have experienced.

Although JRuby, Scala, Clojure, etc. are niche development markets right now, I expect to see a huge uptake in alternative JVM languages used by highly skilled developers. I am not dissing Java, just saying :-)

There are other JVMs that now may take more prominence, and whatever OpenJDK is, it's going to outlive Sun.

> Project Kenai, however, will be discontinued for public use. Oracle will continue to use it internally and look for ways that our customers can take advantage of it.

Does Kenai have a lot of usage? I might have missed any stats on wikipedia. This doesn't sound too great. Oh well. There is always google code hosting or bitbucket for hg.

Found this interesting discussion on alternatives: http://kenai.com/projects/help/forums/general/topics/2406-Al...

The real question is not whether they will take down Netbeans (which would be silly) but whether they will continue to invest in its development.

Ah, was wondering why java.sun.com is unavailable. Some network issues to work out, no doubt.

Yesterday: Java, XML, Oracle/ MySQL.

Tomorrow: Python, JSON, PostgreSQL.

(Or so I hope....)