Java technology: What will happen in 2007?

Today I read an interesting article by Elliotte Rusty Harold and his interesting analysis of what to expect from Java in 2007 and where the language and platform are headed.

A lot of people do agree with his view, the one point everybody is discussing about is the part about "Ruby wins the race". Some people (including myself) are convinced that there is more future in Groovy and Grails instead as an alternative to Ruby and Rails. Let's see at the end of this year ...