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Friday August 31, 2007
A Couple More Minutes
Today my 15 will be complete when my interview with
Kuldip
gets published on SDN-TV.
You will get an update on
OpenJDK
and the work the community has already accomplished
towards a completely Free runtime in creating
IcedTea.
Currently on SDN you can see
Barton
talk about our work on
packaging our Java Stack
for GNU/Linux and our
announcement with Ubuntu
earlier this year. And, yes, Barton is wearing a
Debian
Etch T-Shirt.
Thanks to mjw and the Fedora team collaborating with OpenJDK and packaging IcedTea for the *.rpm world. Thanks also to doko and man-di for packaging IcedTea for the *.deb world. Thanks to Betelgeuse for packaging OpenJDK and IcedTea for the *.ebuild world.
As you know I think packaging has long been overlooked in the Java ecosystem for getting all of the coolness "over the finish line". But, of course, it is important to thank all the men and women who have worked with Java Technology from the time it was Oak for building the rich platforms we have today.
Despite dalibor talking up my being an Executive
this is about all of us.
Back to the regularly scheduled program.
Posted by tmarble ( Aug 31 2007, 09:49:21 AM CDT ) Permalink
Thursday August 09, 2007
The Java Promise
Sun is announcing today the availability of a new license that
will fulfill our promise to the Free software world to make it
possible to test OpenJDK-based implementations for compatibility.
We are about to start an IRC discussion to talk about it.
Please check out the
OpenJDK TCK License and also the
updated FAQ.
The TCK is the tool through which compatibility can be determined. While it is common for many programming environments to work on more than one platform I challenge any of them to have gone to the lengths Java has to insure the same quality experience on all platforms. And to Java's credit it also brings along stellar performance and security.
After the chat let's continue to the discussion on the discuss mailing list (or discuss on gmane).
NOTE on submitting comments: The Roller software we use here at Sun is quite aggressive about which comments it likes. Please be patient if your comment which includes HTML is not displayed immediately. I will ensure it gets published the next time I check e-mail.
Posted by tmarble ( Aug 09 2007, 09:57:44 AM CDT ) Permalink Comments [1]