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I'm pleased to report that we finally have annonced the terms of the Java Distribution License (JDL) as it applies to the Sun JavaServer Faces Reference Implementation, and to JavaServer Faces implementations at large. It is now possible to electronically accept the JavaServer Faces JDL and produce official, compliant implementations of JavaServer Faces technology. The JDL also covers fee-based access to the JavaServer Faces TCK. If you're seriously interested in paying for access to the TCK, contact me and I'll forward you to the proper party. It's rather expensive so serious inquiries only.

I have updated the FAQ entry with links that allow you to accept either the JRL or the JDL.

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Questions for Sun's head of Software

Posted by edburns on March 10, 2005 at 07:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Next month I'll have the opportunity to ask questions in real-time to John Loiacano, Sun's head of Software. I usually can come up with tough questions on my own, but since I got into blogging, I thought, "why not see what the world wants to know?" So, please leave a comment with your questions, if you are so inclined. I can't commit to publishing any answers in this forum, but who knows, perhaps I'll run into you at a conference and we can talk off the record. In person, I can exercise the usual discretion when talking about such things, which isn't as easy in a blog. Ed

Article Thoughts - Dick Grimes's .NET Farewell

Posted by edburns on March 08, 2005 at 07:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (9)

http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9211/ddj050201dnn/

I know I'm late to the party on this article, so please excuse my tardiness.

I'd like to offer my thoughts on how Microsoft and Sun have approached the problem of bringing more "ease of development" to their respective platforms. According to Mr. Grimes's article, Microsoft marketing was behind the introduction of VB.NET. Their motivation was to free the massive numbers of developers they had won with VB from the shackles of a single-threaded non-OO language, while still retaining those massive numbers firmly in the Microsoft development camp. Their approach to do this was marketing driven, and resulted in the creation of a backwards incompatible language, with an implementation of inconsistent quality, that is marketed as being backwards compatible with VB. Sun's motivation for "ease of development" was, "we have a great, powerful, easy to use, language, but damn, look at all those VB developers!" Sun's approach, rather than being marketing driven, was engineering driven. We chose to develop easy to use tools and technologies (like Java Studio Creator and DASL) and add selective, highly considered, features to the core language. I contend that right now Sun's approach has yielded a more successful result in terms of "ease of development", and it's starting to yield a good result in terms also of developer capture as well.

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