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Javaone news highlights. Open Source Java

Next came one of the conference sponsors, Ed Zander with Motorola who picked up a duke choice for a Motorola phone. Then the JDK java distro license change was introduced by Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu fame. Jonathan hinted about Ubuntu on 'servers', which of course ubuntu already runs on servers and then asked about support on ubuntu on Sparc. Mark did not confirm anything.

Next Marc Fleury came on with a red hat(beret) and hinted some collaboration with Sun and Redhat and that redhat was joining Netbeans. Redhat have been making their own eclipse edition so far.

Next Rich Green was invited to say that Sun is working out how to open source Java and not whether it would be open sourced. Given the time to open source solaris I wouldn't expect anything to happen for a while. I hope this is a real announcement and not playing for time.

Next Jeff Jackson is talking about Java EE 5. Which is already has an open source implementation and had the jcp members stand on stage and Jeet to discuss how to use blogs from the Glassfish community! ...

Next came J2EE and AJAX demos from Craig and Greg, knowing Craig the beer finder was a useful google mashup

Comments

• I assume it will be as real as Sun's announcement at Java One to open source Java3D. What a cute little piece of PR spin that one was.

  I'll believe it when I see Sun publishing something actually useful from their J2SE implementation under an open source license. Since that will not happen, as long as Hamilton and his clan are on board, it's all just hot air.

  cheers,
  dalibor topic

  Posted by: robilad on May 16, 2006 at 11:30 AM

• Dalibor, I'll buy you a beer when/whenever/however it happens, you've waited long enough!

  Posted by: calvinaustin on May 16, 2006 at 03:29 PM

• It appears that the Harmony folks are worried they'll become "irrelevant" if/when Sun open sources their implementation. Don't worry guys, there's room for 2 good JVMs. :-)

  Posted by: bharathch on May 17, 2006 at 12:09 AM

• bharatch, nah, not really, the only thing I am worrried about is if Sun's fully committed to pulling that through come what may with the free runtime community.

  cheers,
  dalibor topic

  Posted by: robilad on May 17, 2006 at 03:30 AM

• I also don't believe Sun, and I have no involvement in open source Java.

  Posted by: tjpalmer on May 17, 2006 at 09:55 AM

• Calvin: thanks! Looking forward to it!
  

  Posted by: robilad on May 17, 2006 at 11:43 AM

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