For those who are interested in contributing to OpenJDK or the various JSRs out there and want some support, please do take a look at the JUG lead adoptajsr.java.net and adoptopenjdk.java.net projects. We've been quietly working away at improving things for day to day developers and we welcome all levels of experience.
Cheers, Martijn On Tuesday, 8 January 2013, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:28:22 +0100, clay <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is really wide open about Java is that anyone can write a library, >> framework, build system, code analyzer, ide, jvm language, etc, and that >> there is a broader community and culture around that. The Java ecosystem >> has a really strong track record of success stories: Ant, Maven, JUnit, >> Scala, Groovy, Lucene, Hadoop, eclipse, IntelliJ, Jenkins, etc. >> > > I pretty much agree with clay - while everybody can disagree on whether > the trade-off in the open-closed mix choosed by Oracle for the > Java-language-and-VM (for sure we live in a sub-optimal world and as many > things it could be better), I think that the most valuable heritage from > Sun has been the community and the culture. Of course it wasn't exclusively > a merit of Sun, open source existed on its own, but the corporate > contributed in giving it a boost. If I think of the common bag of tools, > libraries and frameworks that I use, well we get used to that, but it's a > very high number of pieces from different sources that fit together and > give us a huge number of combinations to pick from. This is somewhat > extraordinary and it's one of the things that keep the Java success, in > spite of the language slowly evolving. > > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. > "We make Java work. Everywhere." > http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/**blog <http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog> - > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "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 <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
