Sun will open source Java
May 23rd, 2006 by Pascal Alberty
A big step was made by Sun recently, they finally decide to open source Java. The decision was announced during the JavaOne conference.
We will open source Java, we just need to figure out how
… and when, said software chieftain Rich Green.
By this decision (supported by IBM), Sun hopes to bring more users …
See some news article found by Google News here or this french ZDnet article
Stephane
Says
Nice side effect, libraries such as JavaMail and Activation are (finally!) available on the maven repositories…
May 27th, 2006 at 9:17 am