Java’s walled garden
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005One of the things that I realised the other day is that java is a very closed system. Java has lots of technologies that only work if everyone is using java. Java RMI, Java serialisation, Java Messenging services etc, it’s hard to get these to interoperate with say python, perl, ruby, C, C++ etc. I guess this is one of the reasons that I’ve never been particularly taken with java development, it’s just too hard to get it to work as part of a team of larger programs.