{"id":758,"date":"2009-01-29T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2009-01-29T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T15:00:27","slug":"open-source-not-much-of-a-difference-for-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/open-source-not-much-of-a-difference-for-java\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source: Not Much of a Difference for Java"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little more than two years ago, in November 2006, Sun announced the Open Sourcing of the Java development language.\u00a0 At the time, Sun was pressured by the user community and by companies with large investments in Java tools and applications, like IBM and BEA.<\/p>\n

Two years later, the main difference seems to be that tensions between Sun and the Java community have dropped to levels of cordiality.
\nBeyond that, not much has changed.\u00a0 Sun had voiced worries that Open Sourcing Java may cause the language to be forked, possibly alluding to and early-on attemp by Microsoft attempt to hijack Java by creating the copy-cat J++\/J# language.<\/p>\n

At least there haven’t been really any negatives to the switch.\u00a0 Some pluses that have come out of the switch to Open Source include:
\n– Easier to bundle, package and ship
\n– More transparency when debugging code
\n– Greater access and acceptability to more people<\/p>\n

Rod Johnson, creator of the Java Spring Framework commented<\/a> that “We think that Sun open sourcing Java is a good thing, but we also think with the language itself, Sun was already doing a fairly good job running it.”<\/p>\n

The direction of the language has not changed much and Sun still wields ultimate control over how the language will change, although the number of Java Specification Requests (JSRs) are way up.<\/p>\n

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A little more than two years ago, in November 2006, Sun announced the Open Sourcing of the Java development language.\u00a0 At the time, Sun was pressured by the user community and by companies with large investments in Java tools and…<\/span><\/p>\n

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