James Leszczenski had recently announced that Facebook will no longer be continuing its support for Java-based applications. He also added:

While we understand this may have an impact on some developers, we feel that it is most important to keep working on our list of initiatives I referred to before, instead of maintaining an additional client library of which the developer community has already built several unofficial versions.

After this Tuesday’s push, the official Java client library will no longer be available for download from any of the developers pages. We encourage all developers who are interested in continuing to develop in Java to consider some of the open source alternative client libraries listed on the Wiki here. While the official Java library should have no immediate problems with continued use, we nevertheless recommend that you use a client library that is kept up to date, in order to best take advantage of any new functionality that is added in the future.

Here’s a list of alternative platforms that you could work on if you were affected by this announcement:

• ASP.NET
• ASP (VBScript)
• Cocoa
• ColdFusion
• C++
• C#
• D
• Emacs Lisp
• Java
• JavaScript
• Lisp
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby on Rails
• VB.NET
• Windows Mobile

On a hindsight, we would like to take this opportunity to note that we do provide support for Ruby on Rails at FRRO. Inquire us today to find out more.

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