Monday November 13, 2006
Java ME, SE and EE: Open Source, Open Source and, yes Open Source
Filed under: javame opensource
We've been climbing
this particular mountain for a number of years now (since I was a small
child, it seems). Many have been impatient
for us to reach the top for a quite some time. Our bosses passed us
the flag to plant at JavaOne. We finally took
the hint and did a press
event as the summit came into view in August. Given that there is
so little surprise left in what Sun
is announcing today, it still feels momentous and more than a
little
delicious to get to the top and look out at the view:Has there ever been a larger single donation of source code into open source before ?
The source for all three of our Java platform implementations: Java ME, Java SE and Java EE are going out under GPLv2. (Yes, the licence the Linux community uses.)
Blink.
That's the view from the top !
In the JDK team, we're open sourcing the javac compiler
and Hotspot today, on the new OpenJDK website, with the
rest to follow next year. There's plenty of scaffolding holding things
up for now. If you're not already busy in the JCP working
on the API
specifications for Java SE, come join us in as the
infrastructure and governance model takes shape for our implementation
for Java SE over the next few months.PS. Yes, Java EE's implementation Glassfish was already open source, so now its doubly so :-)
Posted by dannycoward ( Nov 13 2006, 12:02:05 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [6]
