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Dienstag Mai 10, 2005

"Apache Talks Open Source Java"
"Sun's chief technologist for Java Software, Graham Hamilton, said he welcomes Apache's Harmony initiative and its commitment to compatibility with JCP specifications.

"We'll certainly be tracking this as it develops. We'll probably participate in the project at some level, although most of our efforts will continue to be focused on building Sun's reference implementation of J2SE," Hamilton said in a recent blog post.

"Personally, I am not entirely sure if the world really needs a second J2SE implementation, but at the same time, I am also glad to see that all the effort we put into getting the rules and the licensing issues straightened out is actually proving useful."

Harmony backers said their plan is simple and straightforward enough that they could begin coding immediately.

"It is meant to be a gathering of the tribes," Danese Cooper, open source guru and prominent advocate for open source Java, told internetnews.com. "It is not enough to have a JVM or a class library; you need the whole TCK [Technology Compatibility Kit]."

Cooper said the breakthrough came during a November meeting in Cambridge, England, when Jakarta Project chairman Geir Magnusson and others began discussing the proposal openly and honing in on the various parties that would be involved."

The full article can be found here.
( Mai 10 2005, 07:53:43 AM CEST ) Permalink

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