[TriLUG] This is not good

Jeffery Painter jlpaint2 at ncsu.edu
Tue Apr 21 10:17:01 EDT 2009


And don't forget Apache Harmony - they are 99.9% (I believe) compliant
with the JDK 1.5 implementation at this point.

--
Jeffery Painter


> To me, it looks more and more like Java's real new home may already be
> Google not Sun or Oracle. Consider Sun's
>
>     * Java Standard Edition (SE) for desktop applications
>     * Java Enterprise Edition (EE) for server side
>     * Java Mobile Edition (ME) for phones
>
> versus Google's Java offerings
>
>     * GWT is Java Web Edition (WE)
>     * Android is Java Device Edition (DE)
>     * App Engine is Java Cloud Edition (CE)
>
> ( idea stolen from http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=1195 )
> so Oracle's best move is to keep the community together as much as it
> can but there's already significant fragmentation happening. Google
> will probably be the ones to fork Java if it happens at all. Maybe
> they'll call it Guava?
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Christopher L Merrill
> <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
>> Greg Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> Didn't we already go round and round on this dance with J++ back in the
>>> day?  Or was the problem with J++ was that MS was trying to
>>> commercialize
>>> a
>>> fork of a open source project?  It was a while ago.. details are fuzzy.
>>
>> Java wasn't open source then. M$ licensed it and then allegedly violated
>> the
>> terms of the license.  MS called it Java, but it wasn't quite Java.  I
>> don't
>> remember the details beyond that.
>>
>> The pseudo-java being used in Android (Google, again) might also be
>> considered a fork by some. Or the pre-cursor to one.
>>
>>
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