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Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java Projects?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the money-to-burn dept.

gkunene writes "Oracle expects Sun to contribute to its operating profit right away. To make that happen, Oracle may pull funding and staff from projects such as JavaFX, Project Looking Glass, and Project GlassFish."

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  1. Re:Looking Glass by Unending · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's worse than you think.
    I worked on the project 3 years ago and it was a horrible mess.
    They don't have any sort of 3D desktop concept all they have is a 2D desktop with 3D windows.
    The underlying 3D system is impossibly complex and non-nonsensical.
    Mouse clicks go through so many layers of checks that response time is ridiculous.
    They are using Java3D, which is incredibly slow anyway.
    To top all this off it doesn't look like they have changed anything in the last three years.
    I might have a slightly tainted view and I haven't looked at the code in three years, but I'm still highly unimpressed.

  2. Java *IS* open source by javacowboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    You don't know what you're talking about.

    Java is open source. Most of the source code for Java has been released under the GPL.

    They started by releasing the JDK 7 code under an open source license. They then backported this code to OpenJDK 6 by removing some of the JDK 7 features and testing it under the JDK 6 TCK (testing kit).

    The latest version of OpenJDK 6 is available for installation on Ubuntu and Fedora via their respective package managers.

    The only parts of the proprietary Java 6 that are missing from OpenJDK 6 are:

    1) SNMP code.
    2) Applet/JavaWebStart code (although they're in the process of open sourcing it.
    3) Latest bugfixes since JDK 6 Update 7 but these are slowly finding their way to OpenJDK 6.

    Please do some basic research before posting your misconceptions as "facts".

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  3. Project Kenai by multipartmixed · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just hope they don't go pulling the plug on Project Kenai.

    Kenai is Sun's version of SourceForge/GitHub/Google Code. I'm hosting a project there and it works well enough, a few minor tweaks and it will be fantastic. I chose it because they had bugzilla, mercurial, forums with feeds and a rudimentary wiki with syntax I didn't hate. And a low-barrier to entry (I am more than capable of setting all that stuff up myself, but I'd rather spend the time hacking code).

    Funny, though, I only just realized why I must have received that "please evangelize Kenai!" message in my inbox this morning...

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  4. Re:Glassfish is a Must-Have for Oracle by rbanffy · · Score: 5, Informative

    He was merely informing he would take a WebStart client over an AJAX client any day.

    Well... I wouldn't.

    Now, someone mod me um +5 informative.

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