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Sun Open-Sources Java UI Toolkit

Posted by Soulskill on from the knowledge-is-power dept.

ruphus13 writes "As the mobile space heats up, Sun has released the source code for Java Lightweight UI Toolkit under the GPL v2 license. ZDNet quotes Sun's senior director of embedded software saying, 'By creating LWUIT, Sun is reaffirming its commitment to the mobile development community and by open-sourcing the LWUIT code, we are enabling mobile developers to quickly and easily create rich, portable interfaces for their applications -- functionality that they have been requesting for some time.' Will Adobe follow suit?" Sun is also working on some fixes to holes in their mobile Java platform, which were discovered by a Polish researcher who demanded €20,000 to disclose the information.

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  1. Re:And this is bad why??? by JamesP · · Score: 3, Informative

    You know what??? GOOD FOR HIM.

    Who said it was a he?

    TFA (some people actually read it you know...)

    --
    how long until /. fixes commenting on Chrome?
  2. Re:GPL? by digiti · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check the SVN: https://lwuit.dev.java.net/source/browse/lwuit/

  3. Re:useless by digiti · · Score: 2, Informative

    It has the classpath exception:
    http://lwuit.blogspot.com/2008/08/lwuit-open-source-today-plus-great-new.html
    http://lwuit.blogspot.com/2008/05/licensing-terms-of-lwuit.html

  4. Re:And this is bad why??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Tortured phrasings such as '[s]he', 'he/she', and (the worst) alternating 'he' and 'she' when referencing the same speaker are recent innovations which solve a nonexistent problem.

    Get with the program. The way to do it is to use they/them/their as singular indeterminate gender. It reads more naturally these days than using 'he'.

    Consider "The user must then click on OK to submit their request" vs "The user must then click on OK to submit his request". I find the second one jarring and awkward. The first one captures the fact that you are talking about an abstract user.