Apache group to begin work on open source **full** Java implementation

Apache mailing list ^ | 5/6/2005 | Geir Magnusson Jr.

[ILurkedIRegisteredIPosted]

Project Harmony ===============

Motivation ----------

There is a clear need for an open-source version of Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) runtime platform, and there are many ongoing efforts to produce solutions (Kaffe, Classpath, etc). There are also efforts that provide alternative approaches to execution of Java bytecode (GCJ and IKVM). All of these efforts provide a diversity of solutions, which is healthy, but barriers exist which prevent these efforts from reaching a greater potential.

Proposal --------

We propose that we create a new Apache project, Harmony, that will achieve the following goals :

1) create a Compatible, independent implementation of J2SE 5 under the Apache License v2

2) create a community-developed modular runtime (VM and class library) architecture to allow independent implementations to share runtime components, and allow independent innovation in runtime components

In doing so, we intend to create a broad, collaborative community of contributors, implementors and users of the modular platform specification.

[ILurkedIRegisteredIPosted]

The list of people who are volunteering to start this project up all have a lot of experience in implementing this sort of thing. Combine this with Mono's rapid development and it looks like we've got some really good potential for open source Java and .NET

[JoJo Gunn]

ping

[Myrddin]

I write as much of my Windows 2000/XP code as possible in C#/.Net. I also keep a current copy of mono around to see how it is progressing. I would like to have C# portability to my Linux environments. C#/.Net already gives me very portable code between Windows 2000 and Windows CE on a PDA.

I have J2SE 5 loaded, but I have no pressing need from my customers to code anything in Java at this point in time.

[ILurkedIRegisteredIPosted]

I update Mono from subversion on a daily basis on my Powerbook. The biggest problem for me is that their Windows Forms support is still very lacking, and getting it to work on MacOS X is non-trivial. Kinda sucks since I'd love to test out a new project of mine on OSX. It's a Blog entry writer similar to BloGTK, but it has a built in RSS reader that is designed to integrate with the writer so that you can "blog more efficiently." It'll be released under the GPL if I get it done.

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

It'll be released under the GPL if I get it done.

There several people around FR who think the GPL is straight from the pit of hell (I'm not one of them). Be prepared for some possible flames for this statement.

[ILurkedIRegisteredIPosted]

Then they shouldn't be surprised when installing it causes their PC to end up in the lake of fire ;)