Rémi Forax's Blog

Resurrect dolphin

This morning is was in my shower, thinking about life, sea etc, when the word 'dolphin' pop in my mind.
It instantly remember that day, when SUN management decide to stop using codenames.

I am certainly a geek but i was shocked and, for me, this day will always be a day in gray. Afterall, SUN decide to kill dolphin.
I always think it's a little bit easier to try to explain to anyone that you have spent a whole night on ladybird than on jdk7 :)

I think it's time to resurrect the dolphin. Now, the openjdk is an opensource project, lead by a community not by some managers and lot of opensource softwares have a codename like Gran Paradiso, Etch, Moonshine, etc.

So i officialy request to be able to use dolphin as codename for openjdk7.

I wait your comment and hope your support.

Rémi

Comments

• I'm with you. Open sourcing Java is an easy way for Sun to continue playing to their strengths while getting help with their weaker areas. Java's branding has been confusing since J2SE 1.1. The critter code names -- Mustang, Tiger, Dolphin -- worked well and made for some good pop art. Let's help Sun with this before they unleash "JDK 6 Update O" on the world.

  Posted by: dwalend on October 14, 2007 at 08:51 AM

• Why do you need a permission to use Dolphin to refer to JDK 7? If enough people do it, nobody will need a permission to do so.

  Posted by: kirillcool on October 14, 2007 at 10:54 AM

• I hereby grant permission to use the codename Dolphin to refer to the open-source implementation of JDK7.

  Posted by: gafter on October 14, 2007 at 06:37 PM

• ++1!

  Posted by: scotty69 on October 16, 2007 at 01:14 AM

• May we have many sleepless nights with Dolphin ;-)
  ++1

  Posted by: freddy33 on November 15, 2007 at 09:31 AM

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