Initial OpenJDK 6 code on the way

Joseph D. Darcy Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM
Mon Feb 11 22:06:42 UTC 2008


Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> as someone not following the project too closely, what does that mean?
> 
> Isn't the code already available?

The code that is currently available is for JDK 7 and so includes API 
changes, etc. outside of the Java SE 6 specification.  The goal of he 
OpenJDK 6 project is to provide an open source implementation of the 
Java SE 6 spec.

-Joe

> geir
> 
> On Feb 11, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> 
>> Hello.
>>
>> FYI, Sun plans to release the first source drop for OpenJDK 6 later 
>> this week:
>>
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2008-February/000001.html
>>
>> -Joe
> 




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