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Java 8 won't be modular


By Alex Handy


 Alex Handy
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July 19, 2012 —  (Page 2 of 3)
At the center of all of this work on the next Java is the newly invigorated Java Community Process. After some shaky years and a seriously nasty fight with the Apache Foundation over Technology Compatibility Kit licensing issues, the JCP has turned its focus inward rather than outward.

Gil Tene, CTO of Azul Systems, said that the JCP is currently working on fixing its own internal process problems. “The effort has been broken into three parts,” he said. “JSR 348 was approved a year ago. It started off with adding transparency to the process and making sure there are no hidden meetings. That would seem an important step.

“The harder things are being built under an effort called JSR 358. It's about licensing and IP rights and things of that sort. That's still being worked on. We have very lively discussions about it. I do think we're going to make some very good progress, but I don't think it'll be something that will satisfy everyone. I don't think Apache will be satisfied with the results. I do think there's room for improvement for TCK access. There's clarification needed in what rules are allowed and not allowed with licensing, so we don't end up with people voting in protest on a single subject.”

To that end, JSR 358 is addressing licensing issues from the JSR up. Some of the questions being answered in this JSR are focused on who and what can use Java, and where. Along the way, the TCK issue may be brushed up against, but as Tene said, it's unlikely to be solved in a manner agreeable to Apache.

JSR 358 is not the only JCP process specification being worked on right now. JSR 355 is up for final vote in August. This JSR will merge the two Executive Committees into a single entity. Previously, the JCP had been divided into mobile and standard Java.

Tene believed that the JCP is on the right track to make the changes needed to keep Java competitive. As one of the only remaining non-Oracle companies to offer JVMs, Azul sees itself as an entity that can keep a watchful eye from with in the JCP for the community, he said.


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08/17/2012 03:00:33 PM EST

"As one of the only remaining non-Oracle companies to offer JVMs" - IBM has its own too!!!

IndiaAnand


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