Open-Source Java: One Year Later (eWeek) [LWN.net]

eWeek presents an interview with Sun's Rich Sands. Sands gives a history of events since the initial open-source release of Java. "It has been quite an exciting year and some of the key milestones from this past year include Nov. 13, 2006: We open-sourced several components of Java SE [javac, HotSpot], and the entire Java ME code base, both CLDC [Connected Limited Device Configuration] and CDC [Connected Device Configuration], under the surprising and courageous choice of GPLv2. Richard Stallman said: "It shows leadership. It's an example I hope others will follow." The "Java Trap" finished."

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Open-Source Java: One Year Later (eWeek)

Posted Nov 16, 2007 10:08 UTC (Fri) by slef (subscriber, #14720) [Link]

Has a fully-buildable Open Source/free software JDK been released?  The eWeek article seems a
bit ambiguous, so I assume not.

Open-Source Java: One Year Later (eWeek)

Posted Nov 16, 2007 12:41 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]


No, not yet. If you want something like that now, take a look at 

http://icedtea.classpath.org/

Yes and No

Posted Nov 16, 2007 17:14 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

What the Sun released is not buildable. Fedora 8 uses this SDK (with aforementioned IcedTea) as main SDK on system with great success though so it's kind of "kind of yes and kind of no" currently...

Fully-buildable free software JDK

Posted Nov 16, 2007 20:50 UTC (Fri) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]

Yes, see http://icedtea.classpath.org/

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from http://openjdk.java.net
using Free Software build tools and provides replacements for the binary plugs with code from
the GNU Classpath project.

Read the Official Announcement:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.distro-p...

This is what is included in the latest releases of Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandrake and other
GNU/Linux distros now.

It just got a PPC port added:
http://gbenson.livejournal.com/
Expect a new release soon :)

Fully-buildable free software JDK

Posted Nov 22, 2007 9:38 UTC (Thu) by slef (subscriber, #14720) [Link]

Thanks for all the replies!