Not only in the world of programming there is a public tendency to run after each new hype and forget about the solid and proven basements upon which these hypes are built, declaring them dead, dying or obsolete with a hearty lightness.

But the reality in application development is a bit different. Not only visible in facts like the thriving life of COBOL in financial applications, but also in facts, that many projects still require for example JDK 1.3 or 1.4.

Why? Because its works!