Scott Haug blogs on Sun’s plans to simplify Java and make it accessible to more developers, learning from the successes of open source projects Spring, Hibernate, and Eclipse.

“Simplify” was the word at this year’s JavaOne. Sun announced at the very first general session that they desire to see Java’s population of 4.5 million developers more than double over the next few years. Their strategies in achieving this goal seems are legion, but the overarching theme was very clear: Java should be more accessible for all developers. And they had several fronts in this effort, including revised marketing, streamlined enterprise development, configuration through metadata, and enhanced tool support (there’s likely many more such fronts, but I could only attend so many sessions!).

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