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Continuando na nossa série de alertas (não, não era uma série mas acabo de inventar isso) chegamos a um excelente texto sobre o futuro de java x .Net no infoQ. Deste eu destaco:

When .NET was first released in 2000/2001, the Java community considered it a “clone” of Java, both language and standard library. Comparing simple code samples surely support this impression. However, MS profited from many years of experience with Java, and managed to solve some issues that Sun only now realizes as problems. The impression that the .NET and the CLR are evolving faster than Java is not lost on the Java community.
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Other examples of this are modularization and versioning, which.NET solved by choosing the assembly, a collection of classes, as the basic deployment unit. Assemblies are equipped with metadata such as version information, unlike Java’s Jar file which lack versioning metadata. This is troublesome for increasingly large applications, which load many libraries. OSGi now provides a solution for this, Sun is busy adding something similar to Java 7.

The Java language keeps on catching up with C#, adding features such as Generics and features such as AutoBoxing, Enumerated types or Annotations. C# now has anonymous expression support, which forms the underpinning of the LINQ technology. LINQ can be thought of a statically typed query language for many different types of data sources, such as XML, relational databases, but also arbitrary object graphs. The Java space, meanwhile, debates language minutiae such as language support for properties and which of four types of anonymous function to include in the language.
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The Java space doesn’t really any of the mentioned items, except for the hosting interface, which was added in Java 6, under the name of JSR 223. This is basically just framework to add new language runtimes and initialize and access them in a standardized way.

Jim Hugunin continues with a detailed explanation of how dynamic method dispatch is handled, which makes use of extension methods and other existing CLR systems. The only comparable initiative is JSR 292, which among other things wants to add a new bytecode invokedynamic .This effort was started by Gilad Bracha, who soon after the creation of the JSR, left Sun, and is now not convinced that this project will bring any short term solutions:

Exceto a bizarrice do LINQ, este texto só mostra algo que vem sendo visto diariamente. Provavelmente a JVM e a CLR vão disputar como VMs de linguagens dinâmicas e de DSLs, e tudo mostra uma vantagem técnica para a MSFT. Acordemos.

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