I am still a subscriber of the Debian Java mailing list. And on Tuesday a little, innocent email came over the mailing list:
Tom Marble – Towards Java Libre.
After that there was a bit of chit-chat, until reply email from Arnaud Vandyck. After that the thread is really taking off, inspiring very interesting posts about Open Source ethics, Sun’s need to adapt, etc. I encourage everyone to follow this thread!
On the same note:
Taken from two articles at heise (in German):
Wird Java doch Open Source?
Sun stellt Java Enterprise Edition 5 fertig
Sun thinking about releasing Java as Open Source
In a recent keynote Sun-CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, did publicly discuss the possibility that Sun might release Java as open source. It would be quite an agressive move to ensure predominance in the Linux world, since releasing Java as open source would create the possibility that it will be bundled with distributions. Right now for example Debian does not ship Sun’s Java through its main distribution mechanisms since it violates their distribution policies.
Sun releases Java Enterprise Edition 5
Java EE 5 should make it easier and faster to develope applications. It heavily uses annotations, which make it easier to handle EJB configuration, since the required parameters can be set within the code.
