Now that Java has a fully open sourced implementation in RedHat's IcedTea, Neil McAllister questions whether an open Java even matters: "Even as Java has stretched outward to embrace more concepts and technologies - adding APIs and language features as it goes - newer, more lightweight tools have appeared that do most of what Java aims to do. And they often do it better."
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Member since:2006-03-28
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2006-01-28
Or you could do it in six lines of Jython maybe? At the moment the Java platform is exciting - not only from the open source point of view - but also because of the push for dynamic languages - namely Ruby, Python, Groovy, Javascript. So now you hava a choice of language to target what is still an excellent platform and sophisticated VM.