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Red Hat Joins Open Source Java Project

Posted by kdawson on from the cup-of-cooperation dept.

narramissic writes "Red Hat has signed on to Sun's OpenJDK project and agreed to coordinate its own Java development efforts for Linux with the project. Red Hat will align the work it has done on IcedTea (its own implementation of some parts of the Java SE JDK) with OpenJDK. As part of its participation in OpenJDK, Red Hat will eventually create a compatible OpenJDK implementation for its Enterprise Linux distribution and will also use OpenJDK to create a runtime for its JBoss Enterprise Middleware that is optimized for a Linux environment."

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  1. Sun has found religion.. by downix · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Open Sourced Solaris, SPARC, now Java... Halleluiah cries the OSS choir.

    But seriously, this business move by Sun has made it far more attractive to my company, enabling us to test out Solaris on our existing server before we perform a rollout. In addition, having the source code for the UltraSPARC T1 has enabled us to do research into how the chip functions on a lower level, with an eye to further optimizing our software to perform even faster on it. Sun, you might win over my heart just yet.

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  2. Re:I truly hope for the end of gcj/gij by basiles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes, but a (maybe minor) feature of GCJ is its ability to build self-contained Java applications, i.e. to compile some Java source code into an executable which does not require any previous JVM installed, etc...

    I admit that there are few Java applications (at least on Debian) which are compiled by GCJ and packaged as plain old binary executables. Of course, this means avoiding some fancy Java tricks (the dynamic class loader, some reflection abilities, etc...).

    Still, I believe GCJ does have at least such a niche market (for those few applications which don't want to depend on a JVM being installed).

    Besides, GCJ is GCC based, and GCC is still a nice project (even if it is old).