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Lutris Closes Enhydra Source
Ron van Balen writes: "Lutris has retracted the open source Entreprise Enhydra product. The old version will remain open source, but the open source community will not get access to the new J2EE compliant product. The decision was made because Sun J2EE license requirements don't allow an open source release, Lutris says. Lutris also says it wil refocus its efforts to its commercial products and support the open source community at a lower priority. It seems there is one less commercially supported OSS project on the planet." Newsforge has an excellent piece on this as well which gets into the reasoning and details on this move.
I know about Kaffe, but I just checked www.kaffe.org and it hasn't been updated for over a year. Why has it died? Legal reasons? Lack of interest?
Japhar is another implementation, but it is in a very early stage (current version 0.10).
Do other implementations exist?
If they would just hand over Java to some standards body, it would immediately be promoted from 'Sun technology' to 'Industry Standard'. How they can consider this a bad thing is beyond me.
Oh, wait. If Java becomes a standard, people won't have to pay Sun anymore to be 'Java compliant'.