Java did lasted too much for my tastes, and certainly much more that anyone ever predicted, given its obvious and inherent flaws. But I have to admit having kind of a twisted satisfaction in contemplating its slow and painful death.

A programming language for programmer wannabes who are afraid of pointers. How could anyone ever descend to that level?

@Koorosh - So you mean that no one but Sun thought about a programming language for dummies that runs anywhere? Oh indeed it's a novel idea. COBOL does that too, and it also "remains".

Think, what's the difference between Java and COBOL? Ok, Java is neat, and also object-oriented. Is it? Who the hell knows what that really means? Ask a typical Java programmer and you certainly get the most ridiculous rhetoric explanation of your life.

Could you tell me what will take place of Java? Oh! .net farmwreck you mean! The fact is there's no such thing like java and a lot of industries rely on it. So java won't disappear any time soon. Even if all of Sun's technologies get killed java will remain.

It's good to see Java finally getting it's just deserves. Java was an increadibly easy language, so everyone and their dog was programming in it. And, there was the main problem. Too many dogs programming for Java. Add to that it's outdated, slow and very buggy no matter what platform it runs on.

RIP Java

as predicted. Same as all other goodies from Sun (MySQL included).

"...open sauce community"??? Are you talking about The Inquirer? Must be...