Java Forum / General / August 2007
Most popular program written in Java
Michele 'xjp' - 19 Aug 2007 10:58 GMT Hi there, in your opinion, which is the most popular program written in Java?
Thanks
Christian - 19 Aug 2007 11:46 GMT Michele 'xjp' schrieb:
> Hi there, > in your opinion, which is the most popular program written in Java? > > Thanks I would say it is Azureus... P2P software simply finds a lot of customers..
Arne Vajhøj - 19 Aug 2007 22:02 GMT > Michele 'xjp' schrieb: >> Hi there, >> in your opinion, which is the most popular program written in Java? > > I would say it is Azureus... That is a good candidate. 150 million downloads is a lot.
The only other app I can think that are very widely used is OpenOffice, which even though the majority is C++ also has a lot of Java code in it.
Java is much more popular server side than desktop. Probably most people uses web sites served by WAS, WL, OC4J and JBoss, but I guess that does not really count for the original poster.
Arne
Twisted - 20 Aug 2007 04:03 GMT On Aug 19, 5:02 pm, Arne Vajh?j <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> > Michele 'xjp' schrieb: > >> Hi there, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > That is a good candidate. 150 million downloads is a lot. Eclipse?
Nah.
Limewire?
Lew - 19 Aug 2007 13:26 GMT > Hi there, > in your opinion, which is the most popular program written in Java? HelloWorld.
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Christian - 19 Aug 2007 13:50 GMT Lew schrieb:
>> Hi there, >> in your opinion, which is the most popular program written in Java? > > HelloWorld. But which Version? There seems not be any "Hello World" program around under the sourceforge top1000 programs..
so I doubt that it can come close to Azureus.. a lot of people tend to write "Hello World" just for their own sake and don't share it with the community of users which may, be sad but an unchangeable fact.
If you want a top quality "Hello World" program today then you have to do it on your own. May be if someone is willing to develop a high Quality one and put it under GPL it would spread a bit more around.
So no Hello World is definately less spread (just in java) as Azureus or some other application.
Though as a last thought, as some parts of the jre are written in java as well, the jre would definately be more widespread as "Hello World"s or Azureus.
Christian
Lew - 19 Aug 2007 14:01 GMT > Lew schrieb: >>> Hi there, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > But which Version? There seems not be any "Hello World" program around > under the sourceforge top1000 programs.. As if SourceForge were the only way to distribute software. Unlike Perl programmers, we Java programmers have the luxury of more than one source for software. And I was speaking of all versions. I notice you don't bother to limit your discussion of Azureus to only one version.
You have to include other modes of distribution, such as <http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/cupojava/index.html>
It's so popular, it's distributed by Sun itself. They've even got separate pages devoted to it according to your deployment environment.
And they aren't even the only ones. A Google for '+Java "Hello World"' yielded 1,860,000 hits. Yes, '+Java Azureus' yielded more hits, but many of them on the first page were discussion forum hits. The "Hello World" front-page hits were all primary sources.
Anyway, the question was "in [our] opinion" what's most popular; the OP didn't ask which one actually is.
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venu - 19 Aug 2007 14:52 GMT > > Lew schrieb: > >>> Hi there, [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > -- > Lew I think it's " Hello World! "
Patricia Shanahan - 19 Aug 2007 14:59 GMT ...
> Anyway, the question was "in [our] opinion" what's most popular; the OP > didn't ask which one actually is. Note that it was not "which is the most frequently executed" or "most frequently downloaded", but "most popular".
HelloWorld should win a popularity contest. Most of us have written it at least once in Java. At least for me, it is associated with the fun of learning another programming language.
Patricia
Lew - 19 Aug 2007 15:24 GMT > .... >> Anyway, the question was "in [our] opinion" what's most popular; the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > at least once in Java. At least for me, it is associated with the fun of > learning another programming language. Exactly.
While my response is, of course, tongue in cheek at one level, I have some serious points.
As developers, understanding requirements is key to our success. A question like, "What is most popular?" is fraught with opportunities for misinterpretation.
"Hello World" is arguably the most "popular" Java program (also C, C++, ...) for precisely the reasons and definitions Patricia gave.
The questioner perhaps assumed some metric like "most frequent executed" or "... downloaded", but we cannot know that for sure just from the question. They also didn't state that it had to be a third-party program nor that we actually use it ongoingly.
Getting the design of any software correct is a matter of asking the right questions, fully cognizant of any underlying assumptions. Even a seemingly innocent question rests nine-tenths under the surface like some giant iceberg of the unspoken.
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Mike Schilling - 19 Aug 2007 18:17 GMT >> Hi there, >> in your opinion, which is the most popular program written in Java? > > HelloWorld. Lew took my answer, so I'll have to find another one. How about javac?
Karl Uppiano - 20 Aug 2007 04:07 GMT >>> Hi there, >>> in your opinion, which is the most popular program written in Java? >> >> HelloWorld. > > Lew took my answer, so I'll have to find another one. How about javac? Javac gets my vote. There has to be a lot of Tomcat out there too.
metaperl - 20 Aug 2007 21:38 GMT On Aug 19, 5:58 am, Michele 'xjp' <mich...@removethis.nectarine.it> wrote:
> Hi there, > in your opinion, which is the most popular program written in Java? > > Thanks Azureus immediately came to mind DB Visualizer is quite nice Eclipse is sheer pleasure to use. SableCC is not as popular as Antlr or Javacc, but it is a great product XMLC is a great way to dynamically produce HTML/XML
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