Monthly Archives: December 2010

The JCP is dead; long live Java

9th
Dec. × ’10
By Shane

The Apache Software Foundation has just announced it’s resignation from the Java SE/EE Executive Committee. After several other recent community departures from the EC, and scathing commentary supplied as comments with the votes from other EC members for the recent Java 7/8, it’s clear that Apache is not alone in it’s dissatisfaction with Oracle’s complete [...]

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Java: no longer free as in speech

6th
Dec. × ’10
By Shane

El Reg has breaking news that the JCP vote on the Java 7/8 JSR’s has passed. Apache and Google voted no, and the rest of the players sadly (but perhaps unsurprisingly) voted yes. This effectively changes the game around Java standards stewardship – you might say it turns the JCP into “Just Customers, Please“, removing [...]

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ApacheCon NA 2010 Wrapup

6th
Dec. × ’10
By Shane

Along with a few news tidbits today, here’s my long-awaited ApacheCon NA 2010 blog wrapup, featuring highlights from attendees. Isabel Drost did a great series of blog articles about ApacheCon Atlanta, worthy of the heydays when blogging was still king (as opposed to Twitter). In particular she covers Media Training, Hadoop and other H-projects, the [...]

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