I've never been too keen on alternate JDK's. I use Java at work and (at my current gig there'd be a mountain of pain-in-my-ass to climb if I were to even suggest we use or test against an alternate JDK. Even at other companies that were very amenable to open source and alternative implementations I still had that small fear that there would be some quirk in the alternate JDK that would bring development to a screeching halt.
I don't have hard data to support this position. Are there other successful languages or platforms with a divided implementation? It seems like JPA is like that and its irritating to track problems with it, because you have to narrow it down to a JPA issue THEN investigate if its a specific implementation issue. I really don't want Java overall to turn into that. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Travis Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't worry too much about the Oracle/Java politics, OpenJava and IcedTea > are always available. > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Jonathan Bartels > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/12/apache-resigns-from-jcp-in-protest-of-oracle-governance-failures.ars >> >> What does mean, if anything, for the future of Java? Quite frankly a >> lot of this goes way over my head. I'm hoping someone here might be >> able to help me figure out what impact this could have on mere >> developers like me. >> >> -- >> ----- >> Jonathan Bartels >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fwlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org >> >> This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep >> this in mind before posting. > > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this > in mind before posting. > > -- ----- Jonathan Bartels _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this in mind before posting.
