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Sun Opens Java.net

Posted by michael on Friday June 13, 2003 @02:11AM from the cup-o-joe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sun just opened two new Java sites, java.com and java.net. java.com seems to be some marketing fluff. java.net, however, seems to be aimed at open source java programmers and is run by O'Reilly. It's got wikis, blogs, and hosts a lot of projects, including the new java gaming projects. Worth a look."

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Re:The Java.net creator is on to something by DeadSea · 2003-06-13 02:52 · Score: 4, Insightful

Java could really benifit from something along the lines of what CPAN has done for Perl. There is a heck of a lot of Java software out there, but I know of no central repository from which you can download, compile, and test, in a standard way.
The CPAN commmunity makes all this happen. If you have never used it, it is quite slick. The process goes something like this:
# install somenew:package
downloading |----------------100%|
compiling |----------------100%|
testing |--------------OK|

The Giant Java Tree is a nice collection of Java software, but it doesn't have the automatic downloads or tests. It also isn't as comprehensive as CPAN, but that is mostly because of the mountains of Java software available.