When the Sun goes down - what happens to the OpenJDK?

[Mario Torre]

Il giorno mar, 21/04/2009 alle 10.41 +0100, Andrew Haley ha scritto:

> A nice idea, but I doubt that'll happen.  As we know, TCK access has
> always been Sun's most jealously guarded prize.

But now the risk of having to do everything from scratch, with an entity
that could have different goals and objectives than Sun, is high.

Oracle has some reputation of being unfriendly with the JCP even, so I
share Volker's fears, controlling the TCK could make it worse.

Also, I don't know how much experience Oracle has in handling big
Free/Open Source Software projects, but apart from contribution to
Apache and PHP I doubt they can be considered an "Open Source" company,
like Sun is from basically the very beginning. Of course, this will be
something that has to be managed by the same people that are working on
that at Sun (and this is valid for every other Sun product like Solaris,
NetBeans and so on).

Maybe it's time to try to have some sort of real foundation to drive the
JCP and OpenJDK, this could help with the TCK too. I would likely see
Red Hat and some other Linux distributors like Canonical to jump into
this.

Some words from the oracles would be nice to have.

Cheers,
Mario