My February 2nd posting Small Differences in Vista Can Break Applications drew a comment touting Java as "WORA (write once, run anywhere)" and disparaging Microsoft. I thought it was kind of ignorant, ...

So now it’s Java’s birthday. As we blow out 10 candles on the Java cake this year, celebrating a decade of WORA (Write Once, Run Anywhere), VMs galore, and bytecode, perhaps we can reflect on the ...