Oracle’s plans for Java and the proposed Sun Cloud public computing platform became clearer Wednesday, with Oracle executives giving another big thumbs-up to Java but a thumbs-down to Sun Cloud.

Under Oracle’s new stewardship, Java will be expanded to more application types while the public process for amending Java will be made more participatory, an Oracle official said Wednesday at a company briefing on Oracle’s Sun integration plans. The company previously has stressed its commitment to Java while waiting for the merger to close.

Oracle’s plans for the various Java versions: Calling Java one of the crown jewels coming over to Oracle, Thomas Kurian, executive vice president for product development, expressed ambitions “to enhance and extend the reach of the Java programming model to support emerging application development paradigms.”
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Garbage collection, involving discarding of no longer used programming objects, will be optimized. Local thread garbage collection will offered for better efficiency on multicore and NUMA architectures.

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