Re: [architecture] Do you create also anytime a free J2SE?

[Pierre-Yves Gibello <pierreyves.gibello@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

theUser BL wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have seen, that you create a free J2EE called JOnAS.
>
> But the Application Server needs a Java Runtime Environment. And Suns 
> implementation of it isn't free.
>
> There existing also nice progress in a free implementaion of the 
> Java-libraries. Have a look at the screenshots of the following blogs:
> http://kennke.org/blog/blosxom.cgi
> http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/index.php
>
> Additional Apache Harmony (http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/) tries 
> to implement a free J2SE, which will be certified by Sun.
Currently, we don't plan to develop a free J2SE - at least none of our 
partners proposed us to host such a project.
Concerning JOnAS, it is possible that RedHat (whose RH Application 
Server is in fact JOnAS) ports it to some free J2SE alternative. But I 
don't know which priority this task can have in RH's roadmap, I am 
simply aware that they are concerned with that.

Note that JOnAS can run on top of any J2SE that is advanced enough to 
envisage a Sun certification.
And I strongly believe that a free J2SE that would be able to support 
JOnAS would be a good candidate to be hosted as an ObjectWeb project... 
So, is one of your alternatives advanced enough ? (I would believe that 
when I see some industrial JOnAS deployment running on top of it).

> And Apache also have - like you - a free J2EE called Geronimo 
> (http://geronimo.apache.org/).
We know, and we have been putting a lot of (friendly) pressure on Sun, 
along with Apache, to make OSS J2EE possible. We are happy with more 
than just one free J2EE implementation - our real competitors are not 
Geronimo and JBoss !

> It is very sad, that there existing nice OpenSource Software for 
> non-OpenSource platforms (in this case: Suns J2SE)
When someone develops OSS software that runs on Windows, do you believe 
it's "sad" ?
I don't. And I have the same opinion concerning J2EE : it takes the 
world to more openness.

Regards,
Pierre-Yves Gibello - ExperLog