After quite some screaming and kicking (see my previous blog) my fix for bug ##6212146 made it into Mustang build #78. For a change I do not want to bitch about anything but congratulate Sun for all the progress they made in the Peabody endeavor. Any community project in a big company is difficult especially when so much is at stack as in Java and lawyers tend to be the problem as well as the solution and so it is amazing that the community project went as far as it did. Of course, there is a lot that can be improved and I will try to contribute to that as much as I can but I think that Sun is on the right path and I see the light at the end of the tunnel where Java becomes an open-source project.

Nearly ten years ago I had an job interview in my hometown in Switzerland and the manager  asked me what I would like to do as a software engineer if the sky would be the limit. According to his reaction he was not used to hear that a little developer would like to write software that is distributed worldwide. Since I moved to the US this dream became more and more reality and now some code will be distributed along with JDK 1.6. Now, the only thing left to do is world domination, right Pinky.

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