Did Anyone Notice Java's App Store Was Dead?
It looks like there's one less app store to worry about for developers. Java Warehouse looks to be another dead project. I didn't realise that the project had been canned until I read Kirill Grouchnikov's tweet about it:
Follow any link through and you'll be greeted with the following page:
I'll admit, that it looked like it was going to be a good thing for Java. Seeing as everybody else had an app store, why not create one for Java? I'm not sure exactly why (or when) the store was shut down, and I'm not really surprised either. Two reasons that come to mind are
- App stores are good for mobile, but not really required on the desktop
But Apple would probably disagree with this with their upcoming Mac OSX App Store. We'll need to wait and see if they will be successful here. - The lack of adoption for JavaFX is to blame
JavaFX was set to reignite Java on the desktop, but it didn't quite work out as planned.
But with the rework on the next version of JavaFX, perhaps we'll see a return of another app store for Java applications
Did anyone else notice this project was discontinued? Maybe no one really cared.






Comments
Jay Huang replied on Tue, 2011/01/04 - 10:22am
Tom Wheeler replied on Tue, 2011/01/04 - 11:55am
What end user cares what language an application is written in? A Java app store made about as much sense as a Perl app store or an Erlang app store, so I am not surprised to see that it's gone.
I strongly agree with Jay that it would be nice if Oracle revealed their strategy for client-side Java (assuming they even have one). I've been able to type "List<Foo> fooList = new ArrayList<Foo>()" for almost seven years now, but Swing's model classes *still* don't support generics.
Andy Leung replied on Tue, 2011/01/04 - 7:21pm
Stephane Vaucher replied on Tue, 2011/01/04 - 11:22pm
Armin Ehrenreich replied on Wed, 2011/01/05 - 3:08pm
in response to:
Andy Leung
http://www.appup.com/applications/index
http://appdeveloper.intel.com/en-us/article/intel-appup-software-developement-kit-api-reference-java-software
unfortunately its Windows only.
then there is of course Android, using a close derivative of Java, where Java devs could sell their apps.
Gar Labs replied on Tue, 2011/08/23 - 11:04am