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Contents
ISSUE 283 • NOVEMBER 2012
FROM THE EDITORS SPECIAL REPORT
9 Java needs new ideas, not a vague slogan Weaving solutions for multi-threading
9 On the road again
10 Feedback
NEWS
13 OpenJDK 8 still nothing but talk
14 Oracle claims massive speed gains for Exadata
page 33
16 SCM companies making room for Git
FEATURES
18 Embattled RIM introduces BlackBerry 10 tools
22 Where are the gaps in HTML5? Business intelligence: To buy or not to buy?
24 Application security goes systemic
26 Survey: Agile dev testing still lags
28 Telerik takes dev environment to the cloud
28 Rackspace creates SDKs for Java, PHP
30 Infragistics enters cross-platform tool market
COLUMNS
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61 CODE WATCHby Larry O’Brien Around the Route Microsoft Office 365:
Two years with Scala
128 world in 80— A collaborative
62 GUEST VIEWby Chris Sells
make that 2—days effort
Microsoft isn’t Apple, and shouldn’t be
65 ANALYST VIEWby Al Hilwa
From pipe dream to true force
66 INDUSTRY WATCHby David Rubinstein
Microsoft: Just another wannabe
page 48 page 55
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OPINION
9
www.sdtimes.com November2012 SD Times
FFRROOMM TTHHEE EEDDIITTOORRSS
Java needs new ideas, not a vague slogan
For the past few years, Oracle Open- OpenWorld 2012 has come and step process to fix its ailments, the first
World has been quite the event, gone, and OpenJDK 8 is not here. Not two of those steps are fairly small and
with tens of thousands of attendees, that this was terribly surprising or even dull. Thus, even the JCP didn’t have
and the constant speculation-versus- disappointing. But it did make for a anything exciting to talk about this year.
reality of the Sun Microsystems pur- fairly dull show. With no really big The one technology that was updat-
chase. Since Sun’s acquisition by Ora- news, outside of everyone still chitter- ed in time for JavaOne was JavaFX.
cle, JavaOne has been relegated to a ing about closures and their syntax, Does anyone still care about JavaFX?
sub-conference of OpenWorld, but that JavaOne was an uninspiring show this With Microsoft Silverlight fading into
didn’t matter much in 2010 and 2011, year, with the broad strokes reading the distance, Adobe’s Air no longer the
when Oracle was there to reassure APM, PDF and ALM. No new hot RIA platform, and HTML5 taking
everyone that it would continue to acronyms, no new APIs to play with, off rapidly, we wonder exactly what
invest in the Java language and plat- and nothing really terrible for develop- JavaFX does, aside from makes video
form. ers to complain about. We might even easier to deal with programmatically.
And Oracle did invest. Last year, the call it boring. Java benefits from this time of stabil-
industry received OpenJDK 7, a tri- Meanwhile, the Java Community ity after years of alternating frenzied
umph of open-source engineering com- Process continues to slowly revise its turmoil and downright stagnation. We
bined with Oracle’s development know- tenets, evolving toward a truly open hope that next year’s JavaOne has a lot
how. We were excited to hear that body. But this move, too, was somewhat more new ideas floating around,
OpenJDK 8 might be here in time for underwhelming for this year’s event. instead of just a bland pledge to “Make
OpenWorld 2012. While the JCP has undertaken a three- the Future Java.” z
On the road again and their employers won’t want to
maintain separate application stacks for
different devices and form factors, so
When SD Times first began publish- ited even commented that his company’s their money is on cross-platform frame-
ing in 2000, product tours were de growth plans were based on actual earn- works for creating these applications.
rigueur. Software companies, flush with ings and not simply projections, although They see scenarios in which a large
cash, would travel the country (and the he did indicate those looked rosy as well. majority of workers will be mobile in the
globe) to visit journalists, with the publi- With newspapers full of stories coming year, needing up-to-date applica-
cists armed with demos, lunch plans and about the collapse of the European tions and back-end connectivity. They’re
all kinds of swag. Then the bubble burst, economy, the continued flagging of the betting on the need for organizations to
and the economies of the world tanked, U.S. economy, unemployment, and deliver line-of-business applications to
and these trips suddenly stopped. debt, it was refreshing to get out on the this mobile workforce in a seamless way,
So when editor David Rubinstein road and hear optimism about the where changes to the app simply appear
took to the road last month to visit the future. Innovation in the technology the next time the application is accessed,
Boston/Route 128 high-tech corridor, it sector (not counting Apple, Google and with no downloads required. They’re
reaffirmed the value of face-to-face sit- Microsoft, but in smaller companies betting on the need to incorporate busi-
downs, of taking the time to understand that created development and testing ness-process applications with social-
the trends and the products supporting tools for desktop and mobile applica- media characteristics, so all members of
them, and of building relationships. tions) might be flying a bit under the a team can work on an application
A few overarching themes became general radar, but it is quite bullish. together at once, and all members of the
clear during the trip, which you can read The other major theme of the trip office staff can look at and sign off on
about beginning on page 48 of this issue: was in the technologies where these documents either together or in turn.
The development tools industry is investments are being made. To the It is an exciting time in our industry,
alive and well. Each of the companies surprise of no one, it is mobile device with new technologies driving new solu-
visited were investing big dollars in hir- application development and cloud tions to make businesses smarter, more
ing, research and development, and the computing. While the native vs. stan- efficient and more profitable. As this trip
requisite space to accommodate the kind dard argument goes on, it’s clear these proved, in business and technology—as
of growth they see. One executive we vis- companies are betting that developers in life—it’s all about the experience. z
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OPINION
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SD Times November 2012 www.sdtimes.com
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Y2K was a big deal The times sure But then I think that everything I ever
really knew was hyperspace-jumped by
Et tu, Brute? (This in response to changed, thanks to
the Internet. Thanks for The Trouble
“From the Editors: Defining NoSQL
with Tribbles, dude.
to avoid the hype,” October 2012, p. the ‘net
Alycia Keating, United States
11.) I can understand non-technical
David Gerrold, you rock. Okay, specifi-
people believing that Y2K was a non-
cally (in “The Trouble with Gerrold: Android started
issue, but I expect a whole lot more
The Internet massage,” sdt.bz/36979)
from people who should know better. you are talking about social changes the fall of the
Y2K looked like a non-issue because of
that I am seeing, and articulating the
the fantastic work done by thousands skeuomorph
stages in a way that I could not.
of programmers who combed through
I got my first PC when I was 34, in
code and data and fixed them to be I’d say that getting rid of skeuomorphs
1995. I had a fear that the teenyboppers
Y2K-compliant. Your opinion piece is a (as stated in “Zeichick’s Take: Fake
of the world would have the job jump on
slap in the face to these people. Shame leather textures on your mobile apps:
me in a few years if I didn’t get my butt
on you. Good or bad?” sdt.bz/37042) started with
in gear. The first one cost US$3,000: a
Bill Winett, United States the release of Android Honeycomb (3.0)
Packard Bell, post 386. It had the wrong
in February 2011, and is now therefore
software. The modem port and printer
Good advice on an established software-design approach.
port wouldn’t work properly. Luckily, I
Why no mention of Android? I thought
mobile apps got the right geek on the phone, and she
at the time of the release of Honeycomb
rectified the situation with me by send-
that it was a rather bold departure from
This is a good reminder for all compa- ing me a new disk.
the Apple-esque UI of the past. Let’s give
nies that are considering joining the Then I fried the modem with static.
Android its due.
mobile app bandwagon (talked about in The tech was nice and sent me a new
Jack, United States
“Tread carefully with your mobile app,” one without charging me. Very nice.
October 2012, p. 65). This point is I belonged to CompuServe forums
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>The open-source phone-thief locator and you
Mobile apps
The iPhone has built-in protection for owners who have lost
their phone, including losing it to thieves. But open-source
require client input
developers found those protections inadequate and came up
As a developer, I see this all of the time with something a little stronger. As Chris Barylick describes:
(also in response to “Tread carefully “Prey takes this a couple steps further by triggering Wi-Fi
autoconnect, activating the webcam to snap pictures of the
with your mobile app.”) Many compa-
thief, hardware scanning, screen locking, triangulating the device’s location, and
nies are not sure of the difference
using social media updates such as Facebook posts to track the device’s movements
between a mobile app and a website.
and location.” What does this mean beyond catching would-be thieves? Read more
For us, we try to work with our clients
at www.sdtimes.com/blog/2094.
to make sure whatever we are creating
is helping our clients’ customers and >Dead languages will be a big problem
fulfilling a need. This in turn makes for
With COBOL, SNOBOL and the like losing practitioners to the march of time, a lot of
some really great apps and can stream-
programs and data will simply become irretrievable. “How much of our own history,
line a business.
both public and personal, will no longer be available to us? That might end up being
Larry Addles, United States far more significant than either the Mayan calendar or the Y2K non-event,” says
David Gerrold. Is he right to be worried? Read more at sdt.bz/37081.