4Use OSGi to Make Java a Great Cloud Platform Embrace the Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) as the modularity standard and use that to drive Java as a great platform for the cloud.

As Oracle slowly relinquishes more and more control of the Java Platform to the open-source community, one starts to wonder if being stewards of the Java Platform was more of a curse or a blessing.

Sun Microsystems has announced the release of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) along with industry support from Java technology licensees including Caucho, IBM, Oracle and Red Hat.