Change in Java SE 7 Reference Implementation license
mark.reinhold at oracle.com
mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Thu Jul 21 08:54:09 PDT 2011
> It won't be an official JCP-sanctioned Reference Implementation of Java SE 7 ?
>
> What does it means exactly (I may misunderstood since english is not
> my primary language).
A JSR in the JCP must provide a Specification, a Conformance Test Suite
(CTS), and one or more Reference Implementations (RIs). The RIs serve
to demonstrate that the Specification is implementable, and so of course
they must pass the CTS. There are typically only a small number of RIs;
in the case of Java SE 7, just for linux-x64 and windows-x86.
There can be many distinct products that implement the Specification,
potentially from lots of different vendors. Each such product must pass
the CTS. That doesn't make them into RIs, however, nor is there really
any need for them to be RIs.
- Mark
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