"It is meant to be a gathering of the tribes," says RPCV Danese Cooper, open source guru and prominent advocate for open source Java, told internetnews.com. "It is not enough to have a JVM or a class library; you need the whole TCK [Technology Compatibility Kit]."



"It is meant to be a gathering of the tribes," says RPCV Danese Cooper, open source guru and prominent advocate for open source Java, told internetnews.com. "It is not enough to have a JVM or a class library; you need the whole TCK [Technology Compatibility Kit]."

Apache Talks Open Source Java
By Michael Singer

Open source advocates clamoring for Sun Microsystems (Quote, Chart) to open up their lock on Java may have found an answer in an Apache project named Harmony.

Under a proposal posted Friday to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Incubator, the group said Apache could sponsor a rebuild of the Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) runtime platform from the ground up.

The full-scale implementation based on version 5.0 (Tiger) would be regulated under the open source Apache License 2.0 and include a community-developed modular run time (a virtual machine for running on PCs and other devices, as well as a class library for developers) and an interoperability test suite.

The result would be a Java-compatible package that could be more appealing to open source advocates who are leery of any fine print that Sun Microsystems puts in its donations, such as some of the bindings in OpenOffice.org.

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It is meant to be a gathering of the tribes," Danese Cooper, open source guru and prominent advocate for open source Java, told internetnews.com. "It is not enough to have a JVM or a class library; you need the whole TCK [Technology Compatibility Kit]."

Cooper said the breakthrough came during a November meeting in Cambridge, England, when Jakarta Project chairman Geir Magnusson and others began discussing the proposal openly and honing in on the various parties that would be involved.

"Once Geronimo happened," Cooper said, "everyone knew the next step was Harmony. It was just a matter of Tiger finalizing and then a question of finding someone that could accept the TCK."

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