JRuby and Java SE 6 News

Java SE 6 slips, and JRuby programmers join Sun.

Java SE 6 Slips

Mark Reinhold has announced that JavaSE 6's shipping dates are being moved back. Mark explains, "Unfortunately about fifty showstopper bugs remained after build 96, and the incoming bug rate is a bit higher than we’d like, so the freeze date was moved out two weeks to build 98 (last Friday) and two additional weeks of testing were added. Nobody likes schedule slips, but shipping a high-quality release is more important than hitting a particular date. (In a future entry I’ll talk more about what constitutes a 'showstopper.') With these changes the release candidate will now ship at the end of October and the final release will ship in the first week of December."

Sun Hires JRuby Core Developers

Rich Green, EVP of Software at Sun announced on September 7, as part of his keynote at Sun Tech Days in Seattle, that Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, the chief maintainers of JRuby (Ruby on the JVM) will become Sun employees this month. They'll be working full-time on JRuby and in particular paying attention to developer tools.

Sun believes the Java platform is bigger than just the Java language and we support giving developers a choice. Sun is planning to support multiple languages on the Java platform; plus, they will be working toward interoperability between the Java platform and other languages. Charles and Thomas will be helping in these efforts.

For more information, check out Tim Bray's blog, Charles Nutter's blog, and Tor Norbye's blog.

-EJB

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