Open Source Java

What would you say was the most significant announcement at this year's JavaOne conference? The JavaFX family of technologies got a lot of attention, but I'd guess most serious developers would cite the news regarding the open-sourcing of Java.

Early in the conference Sun announced that it had wrapped up the process of making (most of) its core Java technology available under GPLv2. The Java 2D API seems to be the main non-open source holdout. Three open-source Java communities that Sun is seeding are: OpenJDK, Mobile & Embedded, and Glassfish.

On another JavaOne note, Timothy O'Brien captured a cute quote from Jonathan Schwartz. Unless I'm misreading it, Jonathan is saying, "If we add up enough zeros, it could be HUGE!"

Posted by Mike Swaine at 03:57 PM  Permalink