What with a plethora of scripting languages and app dev frameworks just now starting to walk, the stalwart Java is starting to look a little bit old – and at just 13 years. Microsoft .Net, PHP, and the Ruby stable, are among the younger generation threatening to push Java out. What’s more, vendors and IT shops alike are increasingly turning to the new crop, opting against Java. And a research firm’s study stated a case for .Net surpassing Java, popularity-wise, in enterprises. “But don’t count Java out just yet,” Paul Krill asserts in Java threatened by new app dev frameworks. “The platform has incredibly strong allies and an immense code base. Just as user sites must tend to legacy Cobol code, so will they have to tend to a lot of Java code in the future.” Software Development