IcedTea's OpenJDK Passes Java Test Compatibility Kit

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 19, 2008 @06:04AM from the oh-joyous-day dept.

emyar writes "At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology. [...] This week the IcedTea Project reached an important milestone — The latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the rigorous Java Test Compatibility Kit (TCK). This means that it provides all the required Java APIs and behaves like any other Java SE 6 implementation — in keeping with the portability goal of the Java platform."

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Re:bfd by PinkPanther · 2008-06-19 06:21 · Score: 4, Interesting

How does having an "independent" (whatever that means) implementation make a platform "right" (or rather, lack of one make it "wrong").
What is it that is "wrong" in the platform? The fact that the base implementation is solid enough that few others found need to rewrite that wheel?

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What's the point? by jps25 · 2008-06-19 06:32 · Score: 4, Interesting

Okay, so I understand that this is a huge success, yay GPL and all that, but what is wrong with Sun's JDK? What makes the OpenJDK more desirable than Sun's? Is it merely the GPL? Are there any performance gains? I don't use java, so I really have no idea and it would be nice if someone could enlighten me.