Monday November 13, 2006
Decide content of your 'cup of coffee' and have it too
After so many obstructions and hindrance, Rich Green (VP,Software) yesterday announced open sourcing of Java
Almost the entire Java's stack - Java SE, Java EE, Java EE (excluding small pockets of code) will be made available under GNU General Public License, version 2 to the outside world.
This would enable Java programmers from around the world to contribute to Java's underlying code.
You can checkout live web cast @ http://sun.com/ on Monday, November 13 at 9:30 a.m. PST.
Check out Open-Source JDK Project to join hands for Open-Source JDK, an implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition specification defined in the Java Community Process.
As of today this project contains following components of the JDK -
> The HotSpot Virtual Machine
> The Java programming-language compiler (javac)
The remaining of the Open-Source JDK will be made available in the first half of 2007. At that time this project is expected to host source code for complete JDK (except for a few components that Sun doesn't have the right to publish under GPL)
Posted by prats ( Nov 13 2006, 04:25:37 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]
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