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1 Year of Open Source Java: Balance

At 7:31 PM on Nov 12, 2007, Daniel MD wrote:

Has it been a year? OMG time certainly flies. I remember reading with a certain fondness the news that Java was going to be open sourced. I remember reading Jonathan Schwartz blog entry: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats and feel like a new leaf was about to turn, with this new day came the opening of a whole new chapter in the history of the Java programming language.

However we still don't have a 100% OpenJDK, mostly due to certain legal issues, certain projects like Harmony from the Apache foundation, have had a hard time getting Java certification, and a certain turmoil has surrounded the possibility of forking Java ever since it became open.

So what impact has the open sourcing of Java had in your life as a developer? What balance do you make of one year of free Java (as in freedom, not as in beer).

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1 . At 9:07 AM on Nov 13, 2007, Fabrizio Giudici wrote:
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Re: 1 Year of Open Source Java: Balance

One year is a short period for some things, but in the meantime I appreciated a very concrete thing, that is problems solved in deploying to Linux (Ubuntu and in general .deb distros).

While in old times you had constant troubles with the buggy GNU Classpath thing being the default Java, and probably half of potential users just dropping your app after they couldn't install it, now I just deliver a .deb package with an embedded dependency on the Java runtime. If it's not there, the Linux installer will download and install it automatically. Once it's installed, it gets into a well known directory so you can rely on running the proper VM by just putting the right path in a script.

Good, very good. Almost as refreshing as delivering on Mac OS X, but in this case you have Java 6 available.
Fabrizio Giudici, TidalWave - We make Java work. Everywhere.
weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici, www.tidalwave.it/blog
Member of the NetBeans Dream Team.
2 . At 12:41 PM on Nov 13, 2007, Dmitri Trembovetski DeveloperZone Top 100 wrote:
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Speaking of porting to OSX..

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/FreeBSD_Java_16_Status_Update.20071112.html

Dmitri
Java2D Team Sun Microsystems, Inc
3 . At 2:29 PM on Nov 13, 2007, Carl Dea wrote:
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Re: Speaking of porting to OSX..

Wow. Amazing! where do these smart people come from?
Port it... do it man!

Puzzle pirates is a great game.
4 . At 2:56 PM on Nov 13, 2007, Ian Griffiths DeveloperZone Top 100 wrote:
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Re: 1 Year of Open Source Java: Balance

The last year has made one thing obvious: just how big the task of open-sourcing a project is.

Visibly a lot of people are working very hard, but the job is enormous, technically, legally and politically.

I'm glad that it is happening, but I think that either JDK 7 will be just the transition to Open Source or it will be a little later than the 18 months objective between major releases :-)

Ian
5 . At 4:06 PM on Nov 13, 2007, Dmitri Trembovetski DeveloperZone Top 100 wrote:
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Re: Speaking of porting to OSX..

Yeah, the dude is amazing. Apparently he only started the
port a week or so ago. Awesomeness.

Dmitri
Java2D Team Sun Microsystems, Inc
6 . At 3:45 PM on Nov 14, 2007, Andy Tripp DeveloperZone Top 100 wrote:
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Re: 1 Year of Open Source Java: Balance

Mark Wielaard posted this to the discuss at openjdk dot java dot net mailing list:

Hi,

Seems it that Freedom/Libre/Liberation day only lives on some webpages
currently. So let me be the first on the list to say happy November
13th! There have been several posts about this already on the various
blogs:

http://blogs.sun.com/rsands/entry/november_13_is_java_liberation
http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/2007/11/13/one-year-ago-java-liberation-day/
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2007/11/happy_birthday.html
http://blogs.sun.com/tmarble/entry/the_java_experience
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2007/11/java_freedom_da.html
http://www.jroller.com/neugens/entry/happy_birthday1

Happy birthday everybody. I am sure next year will be even more fun!

Cheers,

Mark
Andy Tripp, CTO and Founder Jazillian - Legacy to 'natural' Java.
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