On Sep 8, 10:11 am, Mark Fortner <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this all demonstrates the risk of having a "not-so open" JDK. If > Java was truly open, and had active committers from different companies, > then a single event like the takeover of Sun, would not have resulted in > months where nothing got done. > > Mark >
This (the long period between JDK6 and JDK7) has nothing to do with a 'not so open' JDK, and has nothing to do with Oracle buying Sun. Referring back into history: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=43434 a good article about the JDK6 release. Which happened in December 2006. The HotSpot portion of the OpenJDK project was launched on Nov 13, 2006 and the rest of the OpenJDK project was launched the next JavaOne in 2007. It was 3+ years between those events and Oracles purchase of Sun. There were several extenuating circumstances in-between. Another little thing happened at JavaOne 2007 - that was the announcement of a little project named JavaFX. JavaFX sucked up a huge amount of resources out of the JavaSE and JavaME teams for years. From my perspective it slowed down work on JavaSE while JavaFX was being given priority. Certain parties (Apache et al) were making political hay and making JCP executive committee votes about an issue over access to the JCK. While OpenJDK was open the JCK was not open (and it's arguable whether the JCK should or should not be open). This prevented the required Java7 umbrella JSR from being started. You might be of the opinion that a non-open JCK is a symptom of a "not-so-open JDK" but the JCK and JDK are different projects (so that the JCK can be used with ANY Java implementation, not just Su..er..Oracle's). Your phrase "If Java was truly open" is incorrect ... it should read "If OpenJDK was truly open". Java is a platform specified by a pile of documents. OpenJDK is an implementation of software which can be used to create a Java compatible thingy. + David Herron (no longer working for Su..er..Oracle) http://davidherron.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
