Then the quest for modularity was diverted to distributed systems and Web application environments, and this is where things got really interesting. The idea was to provide a framework for building ...

As Oracle has been prone to do for the past nine months, company officials Tuesday pledged a strong commitment to Java technology. They even offered glimpses of a modular future for the platform.

A tidbit from Friday, reported by Alex Miller , gave me a bit of whiplash: Stanley Ho, Sun's spec lead for the modularity-focused JSR 277, is leaving to go to RIM , and the job is being taken over by ...