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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 ilovegeorgebush · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know what??? GOOD FOR HIM.

    Who said it was a he?

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  2. Re:And this is bad why??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just wanted to learn you a little humility : -1,Troll

  3. It worked! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    > Will Adobe follow suit?

    OMG! It worked: http://opensource.adobe.com

    Adobe has open sourced their UI toolkit as well (Flex)!

  4. Classpath Exception? by argent · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is this another one of those "LGPL-like" variants of the GPLv2?

    The LWUIT home page doesn't mention it, it just provides a link to the GPL2 page.

  5. Re:And this is bad why??? by jacquesm · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's 'teach', not 'learn'.

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  6. F\rist Stop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    BUWLA, or BSD and committees q0estions, then but suffice it

  7. Good God no. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    java and UI. All we need are more slow kludgy client java apps. No thank you.

  8. Good Move by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Too pity the language still sucks.