Mark and Henry, Thank you very much. Your responses were of great help.
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Henri Gomez <henri.go...@gmail.com> wrote: > Java is not more proprietary with Oracle as it was with Sun. > > OpenJDK is a proof you could get, build and use your own Java 7, 8 and more > at home. > > I built OpenJDK for OSX for almost 2 years and I was happy to be able to > have "home made" JVMs, for the first time. > > If you take a look at OBuildFactory > (https://github.com/hgomez/obuildfactory), you'll > see its not so hard to build and package OpenJDK (stock from source repos) > for OSX and Linux > > So if you're unconfortable with proprietary APIs, OpenJDK is your best > chance to get a 100% free and open JVM :-) > > > > > 2012/11/23 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> > > > On 22/11/2012 15:20, Alex Yursha wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > Could anybody please provide me with some info on the status of Apache > > > Tomcat development? I can't clear up, what is the attitude of ASF to > > > java-based projects after all this mess with leaving the JCP EC. Is it > > > going to continue java language-based projects forever or is there any > > > formal decision by ASF in this regard? My question arises from the fact > > > that Apache Tomcat is java-based and therefore have to rely on Oracle > > java > > > proprietary APIs. Please say, what I'm missing here? > > > Thank you very much in advance. > > > > Short version: no change. The Tomcat community continues to implement > > the Servlet, JSP and EL specifications and is working on the > > implementation of the next version of all of those specifications as > > well as the addition of the new WebSocket implementation. > > > > Mark > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > > -- Regards, Alex Yursha
