Is Oracle's Avatar dead?
January 27, 2015
Tags: #nodejs #avatar #oracle #javascript #avatarjs
After more than one year with Avatar.js and Project Avatar - the Node.js solutions running on the JVM from Oracle, I must assume, that Avatar is dead!
Why?
Let me summarize what happend in the past:
- Oracle published Avatar as a bunch of various solutions, started from a pure frontend solution, a fullstack solution, competing with Java EE to a server-side only Node.js alternative.
- A very promising sounding fullstack solution was released at JavaOne 2013, including source code, some examples and more-or-less well documented.
- After six months (spring 2014), there were no more (public) commits in the repository and no more communication happened in the “Project Avatar”
- Suddenly Oracle came up with “Avatar 2.0” at JavaOne 2014, and said, that the sources will be published “soon” (whatever that means).
I did several talks and articles online and print about Avatar in the past to promote this very interesting and promising solution. Perferct integration of modern non-blocking Node.js applications with the mature and stable Java ecosystem!
And I asked a lot via Twitter, E-Mail, Mailing-List, etc. about the future of Avatar.
Now, it’s just about 4 months after JavaOne 2014 and nothing happend at all! No answers to questions, no communication, no source code, no NOTHING!
Because there are no answers at all, I now must suppose that Avatar is dead!
I also posted this assumption to the Avatar mailing list.
Perhaps I’m getting an answer this time!?
In my opinion, Oracle made a big mistake in not talking to the community, to its customers! It’s not about that the project isn’t evolving any more. I’m disappointed about the missing communication!
I would be very happy, if I’m wrong and there are news about Avatar. But I’m in doubt.
Red Hat is doing it way better with Nodyn. Just have a look at it when thinking about Node.js on the JVM!
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