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Sun Says Java Source Already Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wha-when dept.

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."

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  1. Re:It's available? by ENOENT · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://wwws.sun.com/software/communitysource/j2se/ java2/download.html

    All clear?

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  2. Re:Concerning Java. by lokedhs · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's wrong. Just download the latest JDK. 1.5 or the 1.6 beta. Then double-click on SwingSet2.jar and try the demo. It's way faster than GNOME on the Linux machines I tried it on. And at least as fast if not faster than the Windows native widget set on at least some machines. Try it yourself. It really has come a long way since the early versions which were horribly slow.