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Re:Three New Open Source Container Utilities by reitanqild on Thursday July 06, 2017 @02:46AM (#14708591)
A couple of examples where they failed the Java community:

Hudson (now Jenkins)

JavaEE 8 (delayed, uncertainity around at least one JCP. Really poor communication.)

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Re:Three New Open Source Container Utilities by pjmlp on Thursday July 06, 2017 @02:55AM (#14708625)
A couple of examples where Sun failed the Java community:

- Java3D

- JOGL

- Java Desktop Integration apis

- Java packaging for desktop apps (Oracle eventually did it with the JavaFX reboot)

- Requiring devs to master the "Filthy Rich Clients" book in order to create cool Swing interfaces

- Making a mainstream product out of Sun SPOT before Arduinos and RaspberryPIs were a thing

- Ensuring J2ME fragmentation wasn't the way it turned out to be

- Supporting AOT compilation to native code, while all commercial vendors selling JDKs were doing it since the early days.

- Creating a GNOME based desktop named Java Desktop System

Sun wasn't all flowers and hugs regarding Java development.

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