Oracle and the Java Ecosystem

First time accepted submitter twofishy writes "After an undeniably rocky start, which saw high profile resignations from the JCP, including Doug Lea (who remains active in the OpenJDK), and the Apache Software Foundation, Oracle is making significant efforts to re-engage with the wider Java ecosystem, a theme which it talked up at the most recent JavaOne conference. The company is working hard to engage with the Java User Group leaders and Java Champions, membership of the OpenJDK project is growing, and the company is making efforts to reform the Java Community Process to improve transparency. The firm has also published a clear, well-defined Java roadmap toward Java 8 and Java 9."

Comments

*Yawn*

[WildTangent]

Talk is cheap.

Oracle matters less thank you'd think

[SplashMyBandit]

Compared to other development platforms (eg. MS C++, C#.NET etc) the influence of Oracle is less important than many people may think. Basically the OpenJDK is more important than Oracle's commerical offering (the successor of the Sun JDK - which is very similar to OpenJDK as they have almost all source code in common). But even if this were not the case the Java 'world' has a lot of alterantives: the IBM JDK, GNU GCJ, Apache Harmony. This means that Oracle can try throw its weight around but it is not as devastating as Microsoft would be in the .NET world. This is one beauty (for end-users/developers) with the Java ecosystem.

Re:Oracle matters less thank you'd think

[Anonymous Coward]

I disagree, OpenJDK (specially for Java 6) has many incompatibilities. Try running Intellij IDEA on it (they don't recommend it), or even some app servers.

Re:Oracle matters less thank you'd think

[goofy183]

Java has gotos:

loops:
for (int i = 0; i < MAX_I; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < MAX_J; j++) { // do stuff
                break loops;
        }
}

Re:I wish ...

[AnAirMagic]

It already is the reference implementation