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April 23, 2007

Moving to wordpress

Many thanks to Steven Noels for hosting my blog for so long. Moving now to http://davanum.wordpress.com/

April 10, 2007

Open Letter to Sun Microsystems / Access to TCK for Java5 for Harmony

Geir has an open letter to Jonathan regarding our access to the TCK for Java5:

http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html

Here's the FAQ to go along with it:

http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletterfaq.html

Bottom Line: Sun is in violation of its agreement with Apache and is playing unfair to put it very mildly. Now you may understand the meaning of my previous post.

April 04, 2007

Getting OpenJDK a TCK

I am involved in Apache Harmony so i keep track of what's happening with OpenJDK and ClassPath/Kaffe etc. Here's a quote from Simon Phipps from his blog that tingled my sixth sense and sent a shiver through my spine:

"I've also no doubt that we're likely to make mistakes as we work things through, especially as our business models around Java things evolve. Apologies in advance, help us fix them as they show up."