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There's really only one, possibly two saviors of Java. Redhat with JBoss/Icedtea, and OpenJDK, which has IBM, Redhat, Oracle and Doug Lea at the top level. I do
by ece 8y ago
There's really only one, possibly two saviors of Java. Redhat with JBoss/Icedtea, and OpenJDK, which has IBM, Redhat, Oracle and Doug Lea at the top level. I don't see any great examples of building successful open source communities from IBM, but open sourcing OpenJ9 earns them some good will. Short of OpenJDK being adopted by Apache/Mozilla/etc.. (Oracle will let this happen after hell freezes over..) Java really has only one savior.
Redhat is skipping the minor Java versions, so it's Icedtea/OpenJDK build has Java 8, and the next version will have Java 11. This is what I'll be using on Linux.
- Sindisil 8y ago"I don't see any great examples of building successful open source communities from IBM, [...]" What about Eclipse? Love it or loathe it, it's certainly been successful.
- ece 8y agoSure, apart from their attempt to control the Java ecosystem being that old, it doesn't leave me with confidence that they are as committed to open source as Redhat. This sounds harsh, and I don't mean to be, but only time will tell how OpenJDK/Open J9 fares.