Sun Says Java Source Already Available

mjdroner writes "In an InfoWorld article, Java CTO James Gosling says that source code for Java has been available for 10 years. Gosling claims Java is close to an open source model, though discounts Sun joining the Eclipse Foundation. He goes on to say that Eclipse's endorsement of the standard widget toolkit destroyed interoperability, saying it's based on the windows API, making it problematic to run on other platforms."

Comments

Oh yeah?

[cosmotron]

Then where is it, behind a door that says "Beware of Leopard"?

Re:Concerning Java.

[Anonymous Coward]

So you know nothing, and need to get laid, gotcha.

Re:Swing

[Kombat]

Swing is a joke. It doesn't look native, it is a resource hog

1995 called. They want your complaints back.

You know, back when Java first debuted, its critics complained that it ran too slow. This was back when everyone was running 486 DX/100's, and Pentium 75's were just coming onto the market. Advocates of Java countered that hardware would soon be fast enough to render Java's slight speed disadvantage (due to being interpreted code) irrelevant. Plus, a JIT compiler was in the works to make Java run just as fast as native code.

Guess what? They were right. We're not running 100 MHz machines anymore. We're running 2.4 GHz machines, and Java is just as quick and responsive as any other app. Today's machines have way more than enough CPU power and memory capacity to run even the largest Java apps with no delays at all.

Time for you to come up with some new, fresh complaints.

Gimme the source

[Schmuckly_McDuckly]

This is great news, I always wanted to remove that pesky garbage collector....

From the Article

[Orrin Bloquy]

"It's been there for years," Sun CTO Ned Baker replied, "just grep your /java/bin directory for the string 'malloc(all);' and you'll find it."