OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/18050/Free_GNU_Classpath_OpenJDK_Hybrids_Appear Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:34:50 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com IcedTea http://osnews.com/thread?246095 http://osnews.com/thread?246095 I found the name quite funny :-). Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kev009) Comments sounds good but.. http://osnews.com/thread?246112 http://osnews.com/thread?246112 well, although this seems like a good thing first, i think it would be better if they wait a little more until Open JDK project settles and contribute there. Open JDK also will be in mercurial repositories, and they were already asking people to cooporate for missing open source parts after all. i hope RedHat's intention is not stealing the thunder of Sun by grabbing the %90 of Open JDK code and trying to seem the "actual" developers of it by plugging some classpath code into it. it is a fact hat still most of new JDK7 code is written by the Sun engineers. Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ahmetaa) Comments RE: IcedTea http://osnews.com/thread?246116 http://osnews.com/thread?246116 I found the name quite funny :-).

Me too. It reminded me of the rapper turned T.V. actor Ice-T. I think that is his name. Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (buff) Comments RE: sounds good but.. http://osnews.com/thread?246118 http://osnews.com/thread?246118 If you read the link, they said that they were going to contribute it to OpenJDK, but they wanted to go ahead and get started instead of waiting for their repositories to be setup. They also said that the code is pretty experimental and wouldn't be ready to check in to the official project anyway. Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smitty) Comments RE: IcedTea http://osnews.com/thread?246163 http://osnews.com/thread?246163 I found the name quite funny :-).

Well, let's face it, it's going to be some creative combination of various beverages - anything apart from Java ;-). Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (segedunum) Comments Great! What about Ubuntu. http://osnews.com/thread?246173 http://osnews.com/thread?246173 I think this is great. Can't wait to see Java better integrated into GNU/Linux. Hopefully we'll only have one apt-get install java in the future.

Does anyone know what the status is on Ubuntu Gutsy for this? Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hakonaj) Comments RE: Great! What about Ubuntu. http://osnews.com/thread?246191 http://osnews.com/thread?246191
Hopefully we'll only have one apt-get install java in the future.


You mean instead of

% apt-get install sun-java6-jre

like right now? Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (anda_skoa) Comments RE[2]: Great! What about Ubuntu. http://osnews.com/thread?246195 http://osnews.com/thread?246195 Well I was more thinking that we don't have to decide on which make of Java JRE to install, but just use the default one from Sun and that it is 100% free and open. Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hakonaj) Comments compatible http://osnews.com/thread?246211 http://osnews.com/thread?246211 ok if I write some java code (write once, deploy many, as they used to say) will I find 'compatibilty issues' with these various implementaions? Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments RE: compatible http://osnews.com/thread?246219 http://osnews.com/thread?246219 IcedTea at this point is highly experimental (by definition), so I'd expect to see all sorts of issues.

The initial goal was to get OpenJDK to build without having to rely on binary encumbrances, using the free software code from Classpath to fill out the gaps.

Whether that turns out to be the best way forward (wrt to compatibility), we don't know yet, but now that there is working code out there, we can begin to find out. ;) Edited 2007-06-08 12:56 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (robilad) Comments Wonderful ! http://osnews.com/thread?246261 http://osnews.com/thread?246261 Glad to see GNU Classpath is making its way to the main Open JDK tree. Keep up the good work Mark, Dalibor and Firends ! :-) Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lord_rob) Comments