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My previous article in this series, “Open source Java projects: Java Binding for OpenGL (JOGL),” introduced 3D graphics by way of Sun’s JOGL technology. While writing that article, I ...
When I wrote my recent Open source Java projects introduction to Github I noted that Storm, a project submitted by developer Nathan Marz, was among GitHub’s most watched Java repositories.
Souza is a veteran of several open-source Java initiatives, founding the Brazilian Javali project and later co-founding the Roxo project, which sought to use Kaffe and Classpath as the basis for a ...
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Sun also committed to providing dual licensing for Project GlassFish, its open source application server initiative based on the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE). Underway since June ...
Sun's release of OpenJDK means some long-running open-source Java projects are now superfluous. Leaders of Kaffe, Apache Harmony and others spoke at JavaOne about plans for handling their redundancy.
Sun Microsystems Inc. launched a portal site for its Java programming language today as it inches closer to making the Java code open-source, a company executive said. The Web site details the ...
The Geronimo project, in contrast, released its first code for developers only last month — a J2EE container integrated with four existing open-source Java server components.
“Open source projects always welcome contributions from anyone, anywhere, yet granting someone administrative access to the source code as a maintainer requires a higher level of earned trust ...
The Web site details the company’s moves to open source the first bits of the Java Standard Edition (SE) implementation, known as the Java Development Kit (JDK), said Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief ...
Open-source projects rely on contributions from community members to keep them updated with patches. The updates are discussed on forums with volunteer software maintainers, who chat with one ...