Linked by Rahul on Fri 31st Jul 2009 21:59 UTC
In this exclusive interview, Rich Sharples, Product Management Director at Red Hat, talks about OpenJDK. the free and open source implementation of the Java SE platform. The IcedTea project, one of Red Hat's major contributions to the OpenJDK ecosystem, has done a great deal to enable upstream adoption of Java on the Linux platform; however, the question remains whether Java would've been more ubiquitous throughout the Linux universe had Sun open sourced Java much sooner than it actually did. Rich discusses some of these issues and talks about some of the new features in OpenJDK 7, as well as the impact that dynamic languages, increased modularity and virtualization will have on the Java platform. He also describes the impact he thinks Oracle's acquisition will have on licensing options around OpenJDK.
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RE[6]: irrelevant past question?
by Jondice on Sat 1st Aug 2009 16:56
in reply to "RE[5]: irrelevant past question?"
Member since:2006-09-20
There are certainly some bad examples out there, usually older projects. Here is a good example of a nice GUI (IMO):
http://www.cytoscape.org/screenshots.php
RE[7]: irrelevant past question?
by Lennie on Mon 3rd Aug 2009 07:20
in reply to "RE[6]: irrelevant past question?"
Member since:2007-09-22
Member since:
2005-07-06
Must resist... urge...
:)
Edited 2009-08-01 13:28 UTC