Greatest Java apps

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Post by miked85 » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 11:57 AM UTC

Re: Greatest Java apps

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Post by ce4 » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 12:46 PM UTC

The list generates some mixed feelings - #16 for example, where the inventor/maintainer got driven away by Oracle's acquisition of Sun and forked Jenkins from Hudson.

Re: Greatest Java apps

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Post by cageface » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 12:55 PM UTC

I'd nominate Bitwig for this. The UI is written in Java and is one of the nicest DAW interfaces around. The stuff they've been doing in the modular grid lately is particularly impressive. The fact that it's in Java means it works great on Linux too.

https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html

Re: Greatest Java apps

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Post by pjmlp » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 1:08 PM UTC

cageface wrote: post #3

I'd nominate Bitwig for this. The UI is written in Java and is one of the nicest DAW interfaces around. The stuff they've been doing in the modular grid lately is particularly impressive. The fact that it's in Java means it works great on Linux too. https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html

Definitely, thanks for sharing.

Re: Greatest Java apps

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Post by altcognito » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 1:10 PM UTC

Lucene? Android :) Tomcat? Maven?

The Minecraft coding community is amazing. What they get done without documentation is stunning.

Re: Greatest Java apps

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Post by tannhaeuser » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 1:13 PM UTC

In praise of Lucene, it's stated that

> Wikipedia replaced the Lucene engine with Elasticsearch, a distributed, REST-enabled search engine also written in Java

Elasticsearch is still using Lucene as core search engine though, so all that was replaced is the custom job control and wrapping around Lucene (SOLR?) by the one that Elasticsearch provides I guess.

Re: Greatest Java apps

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Post by johnklos » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 1:14 PM UTC

So not impressed. Still waiting for, "write once, run anywhere" to actually work.

Re: Greatest Java apps

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Post by fieryscribe » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 1:16 PM UTC

altcognito wrote: post #5

Lucene? Android :) Tomcat? Maven? The Minecraft coding community is amazing. What they get done without documentation is stunning.

AWS too. A large portion of it is written in Java

Re: Greatest Java apps

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Post by manuelabeledo » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 1:16 PM UTC

altcognito wrote: post #5

Lucene? Android :) Tomcat? Maven? The Minecraft coding community is amazing. What they get done without documentation is stunning.

I guess that they wanted to go down the route of "hardly controversial and highly popular" applications, that's why they didn't include Maven.

Granted, Maven is an essential piece in the Java ecosystem, yet it seems that many developers are highly opinionated about it.

Re: Greatest Java apps

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Post by jmartrican » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 1:19 PM UTC

What are the odds that a language known for its use in boring enterprise software is the language used to create the most popular video game in history (Minecraft). If C++ was a person it would be mad/salty at this fact.