Mon 13 Nov 2006
Good show Sun though I could do with a little less marketing in the FAQ. I guess any company deserves to bask in the sun (pun intended) when they do good things. I am really happy they went the route GNU classpath was going. This means that the Java open source momentum can keep going instead of having two diverging paths. That is if I am reading the announcement correctly.
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November 13th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
Note that the release today only includes the compiler and JVM, which we have good Free Software implementations of already; the really useful stuff will come later, when Sun releases the class libraries. Based on the information in the FAQ, it sounds like they couldn’t release that today because they still need to work through all the issues with encumbered external code.
November 13th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Also, your blog has a serious bug: if I enter a comment and hit submit, but the security code doesn’t match, when I go back to fix it, the form contents have vanished.
This combines badly with the fact that it sometimes seems to register a security code as wrong, despite matching exactly.