Congrats, Geertjan! A big, big thank you for helping maneuver the successful handover of NetBeans to Apache, and for keeping NetBeans alive and healthy at Oracle in all the intervening years since the Sun acquisition. Your management and championship has been absolutely essential to the continued success of NetBeans. Cheers to many more years with your involvement in NetBeans!
I think that NetBeans+JDK+nbjavac bundles will be very important from an adoption perspective. Myself, I bundle my NetBeans Platform application with the Azul Zulu JDK. The only tricky thing is how to brand the bundle without violating the Apache trademark policies. Will every bundled distribution need to explicitly avoid the name "NetBeans"? Or can one say "Apache NetBeans with SomeCorp JDK" so long as the included NetBeans binaries are the unmodified Apache ones, and not a derivative? (I don't know the answer.) -- Eirik -----Original Message----- From: Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 3:28 PM To: dev <[email protected]> Subject: Azul and bundling of Apache NetBeans Hi all, I'm moving from Oracle to Azul, from April onwards. I'll be responsible for open source projects and related team members at Azul -- and, even better, Azul will be planning to bundle, among others, NetBeans with Zulu. That's something we've been missing here in the Apache NetBeans community -- a JDK vendor to bundle NetBeas with a JDK. More details here: https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/from-oracle-to-azul Of course, aside from the above bundling of NetBeans with Zulu, this change in where I work will have no impact on NetBeans -- no organization has preferential treatment in Apache projects. However, any JDK vendor is encouraged to do the same as Azul will be doing -- turn their JDK into something usable by developers out of the box by including the tools for using it. More details re me and Oracle, Azul, etc: https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/from-oracle-to-azul Thanks, Gj
