"Evolving the Java Platform"

The kind folks at Software Development Times asked me to write an article on the future directions for the Java platform. This has now surfaced in their May 15th edition as Evolving the Java Platform.

This includes some thoughts on the planned directions for Mustang, Dolphin, and J2EE 5.0.

They also broke out a separate short article on Increasing Transparency: Project Peabody which discusses some of the things we are doing to simplify J2SE licensing and encourage community contributions into Mustang.

We'll be talking in more detail about all these topics (and a lot more) at JavaOne 2005, June 27-30 in San Francisco.