OpenJDK, Oracle's open-source Java SE implementation released under the GPL license, gained another contributor today as SAP signed the Oracle Contributor Agreement. As most of you know, the OpenJDK aims to release their open-source implementations of the...
1 replies - 3374 views - 07/14/11 by Ross Jernigan in News
Last week, I scanned an article and saw there was a Java 7 Webinar. At first, I thought Java 7 was released, but soon after realized it was a Developer Preview. Unfortunately, the download page
doesn't have support for OS X.
1 replies - 4766 views - 07/12/11 by Matt Raible in Articles
At Devoxx09, Joe Darcy presented the status and future of the Coin project, and how changes to the language are selected and implemented (or vice versa).
During his talk, he showed the cost classification of a language change: trivial, small, medium, big, or...
2 replies - 4321 views - 06/14/11 by Frederic Simon in Articles
On Friday, Oracle announced that the new version of Java would be using OpenJDK for its reference implementation instead of Sun's JDK. Today, voting will begin to ratify the OpenJDK Community Bylaws.
0 replies - 10556 views - 06/13/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Before we get underway, we want to make the point that all of this is based on our current understanding of the positions of both the OSGi folk and the current plans for Jigsaw. We're not an expert in either, so there may well be egregious lies in this post!...
10 replies - 5300 views - 03/03/11 by Martijn Verburg in Articles
In order to help early adopters explore Java 7 we've put up a series of blog posts starting with installing the latest JDK 7 binary build, followed by installing NetBeans 7.0 (Beta 2). Regular blog posts featuring code samples and the weekly state of Java 7...
1 replies - 1003 views - 02/23/11 by Martijn Verburg in Announcements
Mark Reinhold just posted the new community bylaws draft for the Open JDK. Mark Wielaard, a Red Hat engineer, posted his feedback in the comments and Simon Phipps has commentary on his blog (On a scale of -10 to +10, he gave the current draft a -3). You...
5 replies - 24615 views - 02/04/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Dear Oracle,
I hate to tell you but you need some help with the Java community.
The basic problem is that people don’t trust you and you aren’t very
good at community building; in fact you are pretty bad at community
marketing.
16 replies - 13191 views - 10/22/10 by Ian Skerrett in News
Unless you've been living under a rock the past few weeks, you'll no doubt be aware of the moves Oracle have made. As a developer though, do you think it's done much to harm A) the industry you work in, B) your job prospects and C) the future of the language?...
3 replies - 9299 views - 10/15/10 by Alex Collins in Articles
While it tries to draw attention away from the lawsuit against Google, Oracle is focusing its public statements toward announcements and explanations that it will give at JavaOne surrounding the Java ecosystem. Henrik Ståhl, a Senior Director of Java...
15 replies - 8425 views - 09/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Azul Systems, the employer of JVM Guru Dr.
2 replies - 9492 views - 06/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
In this exclusive interview, Rich Sharples, Product Management Director at Red Hat, talks about OpenJDK, Sun’s free and open source implementation of the...
1 replies - 16767 views - 07/29/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos
The other day I was discussing with colleagues if Nimbus should be the default LAF(Look and Feel) for Swing applications. The current default LAF is Ocean which is a spiced up theme for Metal which has been the Swing default LAF since the beginning. It feels...
21 replies - 8501 views - 03/17/09 by Jasper Potts in News
Most of you know that the road to open source Java has been a long and winding one. Today an important milestone was announced, and through the efforts of the OpenJDK community and Red Hat's IcedTea project the vision of a fully-compatible, truly free and...
2 replies - 9988 views - 06/19/08 by Rick Ross in News
At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open...
2 replies - 5995 views - 06/19/08 by Rich Sharples in News
