Java web store is gone

[zammbi]

Just saw that Java web store no longer exists - seems for a while too.

Was quite disappointed in hearing that.

Was there any official explanation?
I'm guessing what ever code that was written for it is locked up and never to be seen again?

Well I guess there is the chrome web store, and intel seems to have AppUp which I haven't looked into yet.

[kappa]

IMO it was a good decision to cancel the Java web store. It was doomed to fail if it had been released in a form anyway similar to the preview builds. JavaFX 1.x was horrible and not ready to be released to the public (IMO), building a store client out of it to represent the whole of Java would have been a disaster.

[erikd]

Good riddance if you ask me. If you aren't going to do it right, leave it to someone who will.
Sorry to sound so cynical, but it screamed 'half arsed' from day 1.

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[JL235]

It was an example of everything that was wrong with Sun in regards to client-side Java; a cool ideas left partially implemented with no real business direction.

[xinaesthetic]

It was an example of everything that was wrong with Sun in regards to client-side Java; a cool ideas left partially implemented with no real business direction.

Sounds about right.

[princec]

Mediocrity rules corporate America. I wonder sometimes how it has managed to become the powerhouse it is. Probably by squandering its vast natural resources. Hopefully I'll be very dead when they run out.

Cas

[DzzD]

I wonder who has validated Java Web Store when first version was publicly available, this was probably the biggest mistake, and ... ( maybe only tested on few lastest computer fully up to date, where everything was doing well ? )

[philfrei]

I will miss it, some. It was through the Java Store that I found Jagex (a neat little zombie game of theirs) which in turn led me to Runescape.

I was hoping to have some product for the store, eventually, but if I remember correctly, they were charging a fair bit to display and sell a program. One had to be confident of 100's of sales, or consider it advertising cost, I think, to justify the expense--but my memory is hazy and could be wrong.

Are there other venues for selling Java Games?

[princec]

I wonder who even agreed to the whole damned concept of the Java Store. They should probably have been thrown from the 13th floor then and there. Along with the nerd who dreamt it up.
Meanwhile whichever fools it was who managed to block getting Java on to iPhone and gPhone (it was Sun's fault not Apple's or Google's), kneecapped JavaFX2.0, and persistently managed to make decisions such that applets and webstart remain crappy to this day, are probably enjoying a nice deeply ensconced position somewhere buried in middle management at Oracle, safe for the next 10 years until someone notices they're a waste of space.

Cas

[kappa]

Meanwhile whichever fools it was who managed to block getting Java on to iPhone and gPhone (it was Sun's fault not Apple's or Google's), kneecapped JavaFX2.0, and persistently managed to make decisions such that applets and webstart remain crappy to this day, are probably enjoying a nice deeply ensconced position somewhere buried in middle management at Oracle, safe for the next 10 years until someone notices they're a waste of space.

Well there is always hope that they got cut loose somewhere in the massive Sun lay-offs and resignations

Lets hope Oracle are able to turn it round for Java. Oracle do seem to have a better track record at actually delivering the stuff they promise and they seem to have made some harsh but good decisions for Java so far. Early information on JavaFX 2.0 also look promising and they seem to be moving in the right direction after all these years.

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[princec]

No, they're still there. You might not have noticed but all the awesome engineers left Sun just before or after the takeover.

Cas

[kappa]

oh in that case it sucks, but yeh did notice alot of the good engineers are gone.