Tag: J2SE

Later today Sun Microsystems is expected to release the source code to its Java platforms after years of speculation and urging by the open source community. Unlike Solaris and J2EE, which were released under the Common Development and Distribution License, Sun has opted to release the source code for Java Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) and Mobile Edition (J2ME) under the venerable GPL. It will ...

InfoWorld is reporting that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has announced the company has set a time-frame for open-sourcing Java: the next 30 to 60 days. Sun has been under a lot of pressure from the open source community to open up the Java platform, and this May Schwartz announced, but didn't set a timetable for, the eventual open-sourcing. The open source offering will only include the core Java ...