Java and JavaFX Meet Web 2.0 at O'Reilly Answers and Oracle Mix

Web 2.0 is a title that has been used to describe the generation of the World Wide Web that began with sites such as Flickr, MySpace, and Digg, and web technologies like web services, blogging, RSS syndication, and wikis. A defining aspect of Web 2.0 versus Web 1.0 is an increased level of participation by community members, and increased interaction between the authors of web pages and the people who visit those pages. Within the domain of software engineering, the history of online posting of questions and answers to problems exhibits the change from "Web 1.0" to "Web 2.0" when one considers content archives like newsgroups, forums, and modern sites like Oracle Mix and O'Reilly Answers. All of these are clearly archives for information that is largely of the form of questions and answers. Still, that there is a major difference between the newsgroups of the early 1990s and sites like Oracle Mix and O'Reilly answers is readily apparent. Newgroups are bare information archives, with little "personality". They're ideal for being mechanically catalogued by search engines. They're great, encyclopedic resources, but that the content was produced by actual human beings is not really noticeable. Or, at least, information about the individuality of those people isn't much available. Meanwhile, sites like Oracle Mix and O'Reilly Answers are geared for the creation of communities. The communities may form aroun...

Date: February, 25 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/02/25/java-and-javafx-meet-web-20-oreilly-answers-and-oracle-mix

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