J2EE 1.4 Specification Wins Unanimous Vote of Approval From the Java Community Process [LWN.net]

The Java Community Process has approved the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition [J2EE(TM)] version 1.4 specification in a unanimous vote. Sun Microsystems has offered the new specification and its Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) under new license terms friendly to non-profit and open source projects. Apache Software Foundation and JBoss Group are among the first open source organizations to license J2EE 1.4 specification and CTS. JBoss has issued its own press release.

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J2EE 1.4 Specification Wins Unanimous Vote of Approval From the Java Community Process

Posted Nov 18, 2003 19:05 UTC (Tue) by bradfitz (subscriber, #4378) [Link]

"to non-profit and open source projects."

This still isn't DFSG-free, is it? Shouldn't Sun do everything they can to make the community want to use Java instead of C#/Mono? Why not just make it open, let it flourish, and sell Java-related tools and VMs?

J2EE 1.4 Specification Wins Unanimous Vote of Approval From the Java Community Process

Posted Nov 18, 2003 23:06 UTC (Tue) by cpm (guest, #3554) [Link]

Well, I agreed to be polite and respectful, so I guess I'll just say that
to remain as distanced from Java and as close to C as possible means at least your apps will be able to launch eventually.

Java is really slow man. Really slow. I mean slow. I can't belive folks still go for this stuff.

Slow.

That's what it is.
slow.

J2EE 1.4 Specification Wins Unanimous Vote of Approval From the JavaCommunity Process

Posted Nov 19, 2003 9:03 UTC (Wed) by hingo (subscriber, #14792) [Link]

This still isn't DFSG-free, is it?

Don't confuse yourselves. What this means is that, JBOSS and Geronimo will legally be able to say, that they are J2EE compliant and they will get some kind of access to the required conformance testing kits to verify that claim and get the certification from Sun. This does not mean that Sun will distribute java or javac or anything else as open source.

So Debian will be able to distribute JBOSS and Geronimo, which have always been Open Source (which is the same as DFSG-free, isn't it).

On the other hand you are right, that for Joe Random Hacker this really isn't any news at all, since JBOSS et al have already existed for a long time. The new licensing rules are more about bureacracy than Open Source code.

henrik