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Oracle's JVM/JRE plans: hotspot, Jrockit, openJDK (PM of Oracle Jrockit team

• bretpiatt 17y ago
  Stuff not mentioned here, you'll see JRockit Virtual Edition that runs on OVM without a full OS underneath -- this will compete with the VMW/tC Server/no OS stack on ESX. The OSS JVMs will have the drawback of having to carry a full OS underneath so even if they are as efficient as the closed JVMs you'll still gain advantage for going commercial. The OSS community needs to start looking at how to do the same on Xen. It doesn't make sense as much sense on KVM since you have a full OS there anyways.
• adamilardi 17y ago
  This article didn't cover what will happen to the JSR process. IBM has a huge investment in java but is now a direct competitor to oracle/weblogic. I'm worried oracle will not be as open with the JSR process and IBM will be less inclined to help make an Oracle product better. I'd really like to see a commitment to the community process that made J2EE great. As far as startups using java... Tomcat and JBOSS application server are free and scalable. Framework combo's i've used are spring/struts/jsp spring/java server faces/icefaces spring/spring web/jsp.
  • kls 17y ago
    Since Oracle came into the picture, I have worried that we may be looking at 3 wholly incompatible Java distros, IBM , Oracle, and Apache / Open source. I just don't see how Oracle and IBM are going to get along without SUN in the middle.
    • adamilardi 17y ago
      Agreed. If I was "in charge" I would spin off java into something like the Mozilla foundation. It could be supported equally by Oracle, IBM and others who build product on the technology.