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Java to be Open Sourced in October

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the coffee-in-the-fall dept.

thePowerOfGrayskull writes "Sun is now stating that the Hotspot JVM and javac will be open-sourced in October of this year, with the rest to follow by the end of 2007. There is still no word as to which license it will be released under. For those who haven't seen it yet, Sun has previously opened a public developer community site for soliciting feedback and providing updates about the process."

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  1. Delete Java? by Alex+P+Keaton+in+da · · Score: -1, Troll

    Once it is open source, can we delete it from the internet?

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  2. Re:Okay, but what does "open source" mean? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is this "open source" as in Apple's "public source" Darwin project, where they're basically going "you can see and compile all the code, but no way are you going to be redistributing this as any kind of commercial project"?

    You mean like the GPL?

  3. Re:October Revolution by diablovision · · Score: -1, Troll

    Particularly telling comment. Will tens of millions have to die for this horrific mistake too?

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  4. Java's Garbage Collection, FP Routines by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Interesting, another toy programming language gets open-sourced, as it should have been from the beginning. Maybe some java enthusiasts can fix the poor, non-IEEE floating point performance, fix the non-deterministic garbage collection algorithm, and repackage it as the next 'turing', another language fit to be used for students, and teaching only.

    In short, over the whole garbage collection debate, java should technically garbage collect itself, as thats where it belongs.

  5. Re:Good by moosesocks · · Score: -1, Troll

    Java became big all of the sudden 2 or 3 years ago.

    Many of the applications written around the time are now reaching the level of maturity, and are being seen more and more in the enterprise.

    Today, I think it's generally agreed upon at all levels of the enterprise that .NET/Mono is superior to Java in most areas. It's also apparent that .NET offers a significantly more pleasant experience to the end-user.

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  6. Re:But Sire, the train has left the station by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What I love the most is that the post you responded to will be modded to +5 insightful anytime now. It really shows how dumb and out of touch with reality the current Slashdot audience is.

  7. Re:Cross-platform JVM Incompatabilities? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you think all those programmers were lying?

    Yes, I have worked with Java for 4 years on Windows, Linux and Unix and never had a problem. The vast majority of the cases people are just trying to find excuses to bash Java because they are fanboys of some other language, and in the most rare cases they are referring to minor Swing/AWT issues, like the revamped and fixed drag'n drop support in 1.4.

  8. Java's Garbage Collection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Someone HAS to fix Java's garbage collection algorithm.

    When executed properly, java should simply remove itself from the target machine, install a std C/C++ , perferably a GNU series compiler, and proceed to convert the users code from a poorly implement 'toy' programming language, somewhat similar to 'turing', and turn it into some real code, something like possibly BASIC for the absolute beginner.

    Java implements garbage collection for a reason, aka the whole
    language should be garbage collected.