Oracle and IBM Will Jointly Develop Java Technology
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Oracle and IBM are usually fierce competitors. The two companies said on Monday they would cooperate in the OpenJDK. OpenJDK (Java development tools and open) is the open source Java implementation of the main reference tool for the real world as long as it is conducive to their own development, whether enemies or competitors, can be friends, nothing before the interests of the most powerful.
The two companies said they became open source software community to make OpenJDK Java Enterprise Edition development of the main areas. The cooperation of the two companies will focus on the Java language, Java development tools and Java Runtime Environment and so on. In addition, IBM and Oracle, said, JCP (Java Community Process) specifications will continue to be Java's main standards body. The two companies plan to enhance the JCP.
IBM vice president for emerging technologies Rod Smith in a telephone conference on the establishment of this new alliance, and IBM and Oracle OpenJDK cooperation. He said the co-operation really started to remove the uncertainty surrounding the future of Java and to indicate the direction of our future development.
Smith said, we are committed to OpenJKD for the entire Java community is a very good thing. I think we can help improve the speed of technological innovation.
Ago, IBM has never been invited to join OpenJKD, but the development of an alternative Java implementation of open source software tools for "Apache Harmony" project. Smith said that Oracle will continue to study the Harmony project. However, IBM's main effort will shift to OpenJKD.
IBM and Oracle will support the recently announced JKD7 and JKD8 the OpenJKD road map. JKD7 Java virtual machine performance will be enhanced and new I / O APIS (array processing instruction set.) JKD8 will increase the small number of language enhancements to improve the Java virtual machine start-up time, and ergonomics.
IDC analyst Al Hilwa said, IBM and Oracle partnership will show that Java will continue to invest in the Java area of the two largest vendors have agreed that the rapid development of Java. In addition, the two companies is a road map for the current consensus, that is, the initial proposal to release a version of the software to release Java Standard Edition, Standard Edition 7 and 8 are two versions of Java. Hilwa said, I think Oracle for the development of Java is very enthusiastic. Pleased they are willing to cooperate with competitors in order to maintain the relevance and importance of Java. |
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2010-10-19 16:38:42 |
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