The Ruby language and Rails framework have been gaining rapid prominence and fast becoming development platforms of choice for many Web 2.0 applications and sites. This rapid rise is raising questions on the abilities and applicability of Java technologies for a particular kind of product. Many visionaries and early adopters of Ruby and Rails framework have already sounded the death knell for Java. Impetus iLabs has invested significant time, effort and technological expertise to take a hard look at Java and Ruby platforms and to separate the facts from the fiction, an initiative to make users aware, informed, and ahead of new developments in the technology space.

Java:
Java refers to a number of computer software products and specifications that together provide a system for developing and deploying cross-platform applications. Java is used in a wide variety of computing platforms spanning from embedded devices and cell phones on the low end to enterprise servers and super computers on the high end.


Java has gained enormous popularity since it first appeared. Its rapid ascension and wide acceptance can be traced to its design and programming features, particularly in its promise that you can write a program once, and run it anywhere. With Java, you can often get software for free and is one of the first programming languages to consider security as part of its design.

Security measures cannot be implemented with any degree of assurance without a reliable framework for program execution. Java provides multiple levels of reliability measures, beginning with the Java language itself.


Java pros:

• Java's population of programmers is huge.
  
• Java's open source community thrives. Open source projects exist across a wide spectrum of problem spaces and fill many different niches. 
• With Java, you can often get software for free that you'd have to build yourself or pay for on other languages.
  
• Java is mature. Java is often the safest choice.
  
• Java is scalable. We've learned enough from experience to build applications that scale.
  
• Java offers choice.
  
• Java Technology is mature and provides proven solutions for enterprise level problems such as Two-phase commit, and distributed objects.
  
  
  
  

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