“If you were following JavaOne a few weeks back, you probably heard about how Sun and
the Apache Software Foundation have resolved their difficulties over the way open source software
could participate in the Java community process but if you were like the majority of Java
developers, the precise issues were probably a bit of a mystery. To clear things up, and find out
exactly what these changes will mean for open source developers and the Java community,
developerWorks caught up with Apache’s representative on the Java Community Process, Jason
Hunter, and asked him to explain what’s going on.”
The story behind Apache’s quest to open up the Java platform:
If you were following JavaOne a few weeks back, you probably heard about how Sun and
the Apache Software Foundation have resolved their difficulties over the way open source software
could participate in the Java community process but if you were like the majority of Java
developers, the precise issues were probably a bit of a mystery.
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