Comments on: Facebook Calls it Quits on Java http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/ The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News and More! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:02:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Dan Lester http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/#comment-9879 Dan Lester Tue, 06 May 2008 00:22:13 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/#comment-9879 Actually, the 'official' Java library has been out-of-date for some time. There's been an open source alternative that volunteers have maintained instead: http://code.google.com/p/facebook-java-api/ Effectively, the open source version has been the one to use for some time, so this doesn't really change much. Clearly, Facebook is aware of this and that's why they've stopped linking their own out-of-date version. Why they haven't explained the alternative is anyone's guess. They do like to keep their distance from the community... couldn't be seen to know about individual developers' efforts! Actually, the ‘official’ Java library has been out-of-date for some time.

There’s been an open source alternative that volunteers have maintained instead:

http://code.google.com/p/facebook-java-api/

Effectively, the open source version has been the one to use for some time, so this doesn’t really change much.

Clearly, Facebook is aware of this and that’s why they’ve stopped linking their own out-of-date version. Why they haven’t explained the alternative is anyone’s guess. They do like to keep their distance from the community… couldn’t be seen to know about individual developers’ efforts!

]]> By: Dan Lester http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/#comment-13717 Dan Lester Tue, 06 May 2008 00:22:13 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/#comment-13717 Actually, the 'official' Java library has been out-of-date for some time.<br><br>There's been an open source alternative that volunteers have maintained instead:<br><br><a href="http://code.google.com/p/facebook-java-api/">http://code.google.com/p/facebook-java-api/</a><br><br>Effectively, the open source version has been the one to use for some time, so this doesn't really change much.<br><br>Clearly, Facebook is aware of this and that's why they've stopped linking their own out-of-date version. Why they haven't explained the alternative is anyone's guess. They do like to keep their distance from the community... couldn't be seen to know about individual developers' efforts! Actually, the ‘official’ Java library has been out-of-date for some time.

There’s been an open source alternative that volunteers have maintained instead:

http://code.google.com/p/facebook-java-api/

Effectively, the open source version has been the one to use for some time, so this doesn’t really change much.

Clearly, Facebook is aware of this and that’s why they’ve stopped linking their own out-of-date version. Why they haven’t explained the alternative is anyone’s guess. They do like to keep their distance from the community… couldn’t be seen to know about individual developers’ efforts!

]]> By: Joe Jablonski http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/#comment-9868 Joe Jablonski Mon, 05 May 2008 19:07:20 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/#comment-9868 I also believe this is a step in the wrong direction. Most serious programmers want to use high level fourth generation compiled programming languages. Java is probably the best one for highly available serious web applications. However, the Facebook Java client library was bad at best. In the applications that we wrote, we wrote our own library. It isn't that difficult and it allows you to have control of the entire application. I guess their thought is if someone is capable of programming scalable Java applications, they can write their own libraries. So it doesn't hurt that they dropped support of the client library, but it is a bad sign for the ecosystem. It is the serious programmers that are going to drive Facebook applications to the next level and Facebook seems uninterested in building the ecosystem necessary to support these companies and developers. I also believe this is a step in the wrong direction. Most serious programmers want to use high level fourth generation compiled programming languages. Java is probably the best one for highly available serious web applications. However, the Facebook Java client library was bad at best. In the applications that we wrote, we wrote our own library. It isn’t that difficult and it allows you to have control of the entire application. I guess their thought is if someone is capable of programming scalable Java applications, they can write their own libraries. So it doesn’t hurt that they dropped support of the client library, but it is a bad sign for the ecosystem. It is the serious programmers that are going to drive Facebook applications to the next level and Facebook seems uninterested in building the ecosystem necessary to support these companies and developers.

]]> By: Joe Jablonski http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/#comment-13716 Joe Jablonski Mon, 05 May 2008 19:07:20 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/#comment-13716 I also believe this is a step in the wrong direction. Most serious programmers want to use high level fourth generation compiled programming languages. Java is probably the best one for highly available serious web applications. However, the Facebook Java client library was bad at best. In the applications that we wrote, we wrote our own library. It isn't that difficult and it allows you to have control of the entire application. I guess their thought is if someone is capable of programming scalable Java applications, they can write their own libraries. So it doesn't hurt that they dropped support of the client library, but it is a bad sign for the ecosystem. It is the serious programmers that are going to drive Facebook applications to the next level and Facebook seems uninterested in building the ecosystem necessary to support these companies and developers. I also believe this is a step in the wrong direction. Most serious programmers want to use high level fourth generation compiled programming languages. Java is probably the best one for highly available serious web applications. However, the Facebook Java client library was bad at best. In the applications that we wrote, we wrote our own library. It isn’t that difficult and it allows you to have control of the entire application. I guess their thought is if someone is capable of programming scalable Java applications, they can write their own libraries. So it doesn’t hurt that they dropped support of the client library, but it is a bad sign for the ecosystem. It is the serious programmers that are going to drive Facebook applications to the next level and Facebook seems uninterested in building the ecosystem necessary to support these companies and developers.

]]> By: Mark Waks http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/#comment-9867 Mark Waks Mon, 05 May 2008 16:55:16 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/#comment-9867 Garh. No, there aren't a lot of us Java developers -- just the people who are trying to develop the sort of sticky, high-end, seriously *useful* apps that they claim to want. This is a very short-sighted decision, IMO. We can live with it, but it's yet another distressingly contradictory message from FB... Garh. No, there aren’t a lot of us Java developers — just the people who are trying to develop the sort of sticky, high-end, seriously *useful* apps that they claim to want.

This is a very short-sighted decision, IMO. We can live with it, but it’s yet another distressingly contradictory message from FB…

]]> By: Mark Waks http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/#comment-13715 Mark Waks Mon, 05 May 2008 16:55:16 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/facebook-calls-it-quits-on-java/#comment-13715 Garh. No, there aren't a lot of us Java developers -- just the people who are trying to develop the sort of sticky, high-end, seriously *useful* apps that they claim to want.<br><br>This is a very short-sighted decision, IMO. We can live with it, but it's yet another distressingly contradictory message from FB... Garh. No, there aren’t a lot of us Java developers — just the people who are trying to develop the sort of sticky, high-end, seriously *useful* apps that they claim to want.

This is a very short-sighted decision, IMO. We can live with it, but it’s yet another distressingly contradictory message from FB…

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