Thus far, the amount of free software written in Java has been relatively small. [LWN.net]

Thus far, the amount of free software written in Java has been relatively small.

Posted Jan 4, 2007 9:01 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
Parent article: Looking forward to 2007

This is false. An enormous amount of FLOSS java code has been written over the years. People tend not to realise it because a lot of it is infrastructure/server-oriented and/or depending on closed SUN Java bits (meaning it was not packaged in Linux distributions, and hidden server-side)

Just http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1.7/generic/free/repod... lists around ~ 2000 FLOSS java packages and they're only scratching the tip of the iceberg.

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Thus far, the amount of free software written in Java has been relatively small.

Posted Jan 4, 2007 13:14 UTC (Thu) by Dom2 (guest, #458) [Link]

I think it's mostly down to the fact that you don't have a central repository like CPAN for Perl. There is a lot free java software, but it's extremely disparately strewn across the Internet.

There are a couple of good places to start though: apache; codehaus; sourceforge.

Thus far, the amount of free software written in Java has been relatively small.

Posted Jan 12, 2007 10:45 UTC (Fri) by quintesse (subscriber, #14569) [Link]

And of course JPackage for RPM based distros.