J2SE 5.0 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition period

"J2SE 5.0 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition period. The EOL transition period began April 8th, 2008 and will complete October 30th, 2009, when J2SE 5.0 will have reached its End of Service Life (EOSL)."

While playing around with some SUN developement kit and trying to build the samples I got the error message that the version of the class files do not match. One gets this error message when some jar file was generated with another version of Java... Some time ago I deinstalled all old versions of Java from my computer keeping only the Java 6u13 JDK. It turns out that I need Java 5 to build the samples. Not good.

I downloaded java 5 and succeeded to build the samples... But anyway SUN should see to it that this does NOT happen. Especially with its own SDKs.

I already deinstalled java 5 again, but will keep the installer on disk for future incidents like this.

Migrate to java6 now!

Another pain point: What about J2ME? Are there any plans to update this java-1.3-ish language to java6? Android has java 6 but that is another league.

Oracle Identitymanagement 20% off

the book price as seen in the RSA conference bookstore today.

I am sure this has nothing to do with the current aquisition of opensso by Oracle from SUN, or has it?!

Another book of probably only historical value:
contains everything about the past of identitymanagement and authentication on Unix and Windows systems but nothing that is newer than - let's say - three years. What is that good for? A door stopper or a lesson in what does not scale and is inflexible?!

Oracle will buy SUN

Living in interessting times... (still).

http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp

This raises many questions regarding e.g. mysql etc but most notably I am very curious what this means for opensso and SUN's access manager and ...

This merger will be a hot topic for the identity people here at RSA conference too, I am sure. Can't wait to hear what e.g. Uppili and Pat say.

3500 New Jobs at Deutsche Telekom

Today I read about SUN Microsystem laying off 1500 people. Last week I read about Microsoft laying off 5000 people.
Time for some good news: Deutsche Telekom says it might offer 3500 new jobs.

Deutsche Telekom is planning up to 3,500 new jobs in Germany in 2009, dependent on the economic development in its individual business segments, CHRO Thomas Sattelberger announced today in Bonn.