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  • Oracle Announces the JDK 7 Developer Preview but Licensing Concerns Persist

    Oracle's Mark Reinhold has announced that the JDK 7 Developer Preview build (milestone 12) is now available and the firm is keen to hear developer feedback. The majority of Java IDEs are also moving rapidly to support the new features of Java 7. However concern has been expressed in some quarters over the pre-release software evaluation license terms.

    Charles Humble
    on Feb 24, 2011

  • Oracle Issues Draft OpenJDK Bylaws

    Oracle has issued a first draft set of the bylaws that it hopes will guide the processes of the OpenJDK. These governance issues were originally supposed to have been solved by the OpenJDK interim governance board, which Sun created in May 2007, but despite an extension the board was unable to complete the work.

    Charles Humble
    on Feb 04, 2011

  • JDK 7 is Feature Complete

    The JDK 7 project says it has shipped the first feature complete build of JDK 7, tracking close to the expected schedule.

    Charles Humble
    on Jan 17, 2011

  • Jigsaw Falling Into Place

    Long plagued by controversy, Sun's attempts to modularise the Java platform saw more positive reactions from the JavaOne crowd.

    Charles Humble
    on Jun 24, 2009

  • OpenJDK Governance Board's Life is Extended Despite Lack of Delivery

    In the two years since its creation, the OpenJDK Governance Board has failed to deliver the Constitution for the OpenJDK Community which it was set-up to produce, and two of the seven positions on the board have never been filled. Despite this Sun Microsystems has now extended the life of the board for another twelve months as it switches focus back to constitutional issues.

    Charles Humble
    on May 13, 2009

  • Jigsaw - the death knell of JSR277?

    Following up from an earlier post about modularising the JDK (which InfoQ covered earlier), Mark Reinhold posted the announcement of Project Jigsaw as part of the OpenJDK. Is this the death of JSR277?

    Alex Blewitt
    on Dec 03, 2008

  • Comparing Virtual Machine Interfaces

    Andrew John Hughes, one of the OpenJDK Innovators' Challenge finalists, has posted a multi-part comparison of the interface between OpenJDK, GNU Classpath, and their respective virtual machine implementations.

    R.J. Lorimer
    on Aug 10, 2008
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