java.net: Why It's Good if You're Not Noticing Much Change

There is some understandable confusion over the changes that have taken place on the java.net site starting this past weekend... There is some understandable confusion over the changes that have taken place on the java.net site starting this past weekend. The changes consist primarily of switching significant portions of the underlying infrastructure from a platform that was custom built by O'Reilly quite a few years ago, to a much more modern, modular, widely used platform. Stage One, which got underway this past Friday, is to make the platform switch and successfully migrate more than six years of java.net content from the old O'Reilly platform to the new infrastructure. It's a big undertaking, that required lots of developer time (building migration scripts to convert data from the O'Reilly database structures into the structures in the new database, customizing the user interface in the new CMS to "be" the java.net we've had previously, etc.). If you're not noticing many differences between your java.net circa this week compared with your java.net circa last week, then the migration and transition has largely succeeded. So, then, it's proper for you to ask: "So, what's in it for me? Why are you making such a big thing out of this, when nothing's changed for me?" Well, first, I can assure you that we didn't do ...

Date: August, 26 2009
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2009/08/26/javanet-why-its-good-if-youre-not-noticing-much-change

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