Red Hat Summit was great. I manned the Open Source Java booth on the show floor. There was a lot of interest in what we’re doing, and people were impressed to hear that the OpenJDK packages in Fedora pass the TCK. I showed a few IcedTea demos including IcedTea Web Start and gcjwebplugin. Notably, they were running on my daily-use Fedora 9 notebook with the current OpenJDK packages; unlike at previous conferences where I always had to show development versions, this time I just browsed to interesting demo sites and everything just worked. Knowing that any Fedora 9 machine would run the same demos out-of-the-box was a nice feeling.
Every single person I talked to about OpenJDK asked me about the plugin. I had to give them an answer with caveats . Hopfully those caveats can be eliminated by Fedora 10, and from then on I can say IcedTea provides a plugin that Just Works.
I attended talks by Sami Wagiaalla (Frysk), Andrew Overholt (Eclipse) a...
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Thoughts on Fedora Core 6From: fitzsim.org
Post Date: 2006-10-14 08:47:50
gcjwebplugin
My main goal for Fedora Core 6 was the inclusion of gcjwebplugin, so I’m very pleased that it will in fact be included. Though it is not enabled by default, having it in the base distribution means that interested people can experiment with it and file bug reports, with the minimum of configuration. We’ve already received some bug reports as a result. This is exactly the level of adoption I had hoped for in this release. I hope others will try their favour...
more The New Free Java ProjectFrom: fitzsim.org
Post Date: 2006-11-15 07:10:56
Surprise
I was happily surprised on Monday when Sun announced that they would
release Java ME, SE and EE under the GPL. Actually, “happily
surprised” is an understatement: Sun also adopted the GNU Classpath
linking exception! I couldn’t have hoped for a better result.
Watching the announcement webcast was a surreal experience. It was as
if I were dreaming. Rich Green standing in front of the giant “GPLv2″
slide. The pre-recorded statement of pr...
more FOSDEM 2007From: fitzsim.org
Post Date: 2007-03-11 06:30:00
Tom Marble is a wizard at getting the right people in a room together. In the Distro DevJam we had Java packagers from Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, OpenSUSE, SUSE, Mandriva, Gentoo and FreeBSD, together with all the right people from Sun. This was the perfect group for discussing packaging issues surrounding OpenJDK (and a great audience for my talk).
My feeling is that there is now a general consensus among the distros about how to solve the technical issues of packaging ...
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