Month: November 2006

crn.com has an article discussing the licensing model for open sourcing Java, and reports that the GPL license is likely to be chosen for Java SE and ME, and with CDDL to be used for EE.

Since the GPL license is arguably the most restrictive open source license and will without a doubt attract a lot of crtitisism for Sun, why is it likey that they will be chosing this license? The article points out that since derivitive works under the license also have to be licensed under the GPL, this prevents commercial forking from the code base, so will in fact allow Sun to retain some degree and control over where the code goes and what can be done with it.

Is this the right move for Java?

java.sun.com have an interview with James Gosling, the ‘father of Java’, on the topic of open sourcing Java, what it means for Java, and for Sun.

Read the interview here.

The interview closes with the question “Is emacs still your favorite integrated development environment (IDE)?”, and Gosling replies “Oh, no. I switched over to the NetBeans IDE long ago.”. If that isn’t a solid endorsement for NetBeans I don’t know what is.

Canoncial, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, the distro that is currently attracting a large following due to the emphasis on ease of use and simple installation, has announced they will be distributing the Glassfish app server with Ubuntu.

Glassfish is the open source community effort to build a Java EE 5 compliant App Server. For more info see their project site here.