Red Hat signs on to Sun's open-source Java project (LinuxWorld)

[Posted November 5, 2007 by jake]

Red Hat joins forces with Sun to produce an open source version of Java Standard Edition (SE). LinuxWorld covers Red Hat joining the OpenJDK project. "Red Hat also has licensed the OpenJDK Community Test Compatibility Kit (TCK), which allows Red Hat to build an implementation of OpenJDK and test it to ensure its compatible with the implementation the project itself develops, he said. The Java SE JDK, the basis for OpenJDK, includes the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) as well as tools for developing Java applets and applications; it is the software that is the basis for desktop Java applications."

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Posted Nov 8, 2007 10:09 UTC (Thu) by dale77 (guest, #1490) [Link]

Hurrah!

That said, now I return you to your scheduled programming...