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MissionPublished: Jan 17, 2006 Being a big Java enthusiast, I find it really disappointing to see Java continually lose its positions in the ongoing battle between competing web technologies. I understand why this is happening, and I cannot blame people who are buying into PHP's ease of use, availability and cheap hosting for the choice they make. I just do not like it when a technology that belongs more with things like guestbooks, polls and the like is applied to solve complex problems it was never designed to solve. It is quite clear to me that when people choose PHP to build big web portals, sophisticated online services and other not so trivial applications, they do so because PHP is the only language they know. I do not have much of a problem with that per se, but there is one subtle detail. Since PHP is most popular among younger programmers who by coincidence also tend to have more of a hacker's attitude, the entire PHP culture has this distinct geekish aura that simply does not fit well with the notion of good software design. I am pretty sure that at least some of the folks who now find themselves in the PHP camp might have taken the Java route had the entry barrier been set a little lower. Unfortunatelly, Sun's engineers are too busy addressing the needs of the enterprise world that they seem to have never gotten around to making their web technology simple enough to attract the masses. It is with this premise in mind that I define the mission statement of this website: WebJavenue is out there to pick up where Sun has left off and failed to deliver: provide a resource that helps those weirdos who, for all the strange reasons, are still interested in learning how to do their web stuff in Java.
In measuring how the project stands up to its mission I will use a very simple and straightforward criterion: the number of websites that, with the help from WebJavenue, saw the light of day as Java applications rather than a bunch of PHP, ASP or any other kind of scripts they otherwise would be destined to end up as. Since the project is very young, there is currently no data as to what that number is. Therefore, if you found WebJavenue instrumental in breathing life into your online project, I encourage you to send me your story at bruno at webjavenue dot com and get some publicity on the Success Stories page of this website (which I will setup as soon as I get the first testimonial). Last edited: Feb 28, 2006 |
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