Tuesday December 13, 2005 Announcing Java DB
I'm sitting in Tim Bray's keynote at ApacheCon here in San Diego, and he just completed a career first - he made an official announcement in a keynote. I was surprised to find he'd never done that before. He announced that Sun will be including a distribution of Apache Derby in future releases of Solaris Enterprise System, and that Sun's distribution will be called Java DB (IBM's is called Cloudscape). There was a cool demo that showed Java DB running in a web browser allowing temporarily disconnected use of a database by a browser-based application, This could be just what Ajax is waiting for.He also just recommended Bruce Tate's "Beyond Java" [US|UK], a fascinating if at times controversial book that considers where web-related programming is going in the future. I've been looking at it too, and while it's got some compelling ideas that everyone needs to see, it seems to focus too much on languages and not enough on the fact that programmers weave libraries together for a living.
