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Blackdown Releases a 1.4.1 JDK

Posted by michael on from the choices-choices dept.

gholmer writes "The Blackdown project has finally released a production version of Java 1.4.1 for both ix86 and Sparc on Linux. This much-awaited release gives Linux users another choice for Java besides Sun's and IBM's."

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  1. Re:Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nope, we're against incompatible Java written to sabotage a powerful language

  2. Re:Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    everything in java is about choice

    from mobile-phones too mult-million dollar servers

    on linux-bsd-windoze-solaris-osx-symbian-....

    code compiled to JVM in hundreds of programming languages other than java

    compile to native using gcj

    use naitive widgets using SWT (think Eclipse)

    full (no embrace extend) support for open standards

    inclusive community based evolution through JCP

    allows open source implementations

    support from oracle, ibm, appache, nokia, motorola,

    native java operating systems such as savaJe

    java accelerated hardware components in modern cell phones

    so where do you want to go today?

  3. Computer Software Ideology by LinuxXPHybrid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > I'm curious, why would I want to use Blackdown or IBM's Java over Sun's Java? Am I missing some wondrous features or something?

    I doubt it. Also Sun's technologies from Java to UltraSparc are well specified and designed so that their technologies are more open (standard) than open source, so we don't really have to go for Blackdown.

    But from Computer Software Ideology stand point of view, it is nice to see that Java spec is well defined and has good license terms so that other vendors can implement their own version (production level quality right?) and distribute it legally and freely. That has been proved by Blackdown today.

    Personally, I'd stick to Sun's Java (even though some claim that it's not best Java), but announcements like this makes Java even more attractive to me (than ... dot something).