What's the State of the Open Source Java Community?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday June 9, 2001 @04:41AM from the how-well-are-they-doing dept.

mvw inputs: "These days the large JavaOne conference is taking place. The commercial and proprietary vendors will be well represented there. In addition I would love to see a discussion here, on the state of Java affairs from the open source crowd. Java is a bit special, in that it does not only represent a programming language but establishes a kind of operating system as well ('Java the platform'). And indeed this world is not fully closed there is also open source software blossoming there, ranging from the GPL to the BSD sides of the free/open source community. The Jakarta Project initiative is going the BSD license way (actually they use ASL, but it is quite close), with prominent software like Tomcat or ant. Less mentioned in the Java press IMHO is the GNU Project which working on a GPLed Java implementation, with a long list of Java programs. They even have a couple of quines in Java here."

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Sourceforge's lively by sachachua · 2001-06-10 16:56 · Score: 2

The Java trove over at sourceforge.net seems to be pretty lively; or at least as lively as SourceForge can be after that recent interruption.
People are still dissing Java in IRC channels, but hey, Java has its uses. =)