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May 09, 2007 | Comments: (0)

No conflict seen between Java groups

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Although both groups oversee Java technologies, the new OpenJDK governance body has clearly delineated differences in responsibilities from the Java Community Process (JCP), representatives of the JCP said at JavaOne on Wednesday.

While the governance body will steer the open source implementation of Java, the JCP continues to advance new, standardized technologies for inclusion in the overall Java technology platform, according to JCP officials.

Asked if there would be any conflicts between the two groups during a roundtable session at the conference, Onno Kluyt, chairm of the JCP Program, said there would not be. "The JCP is the standards body. It defines what Java is," Kluyt said.

"The role of the JCP is to define standards that there could be many, many implementations of, and OpenJDK is one implementation of that standard," said Danny Coward, a JCP executive committee member and Sun official.

Working with both the interim OpenJDK governing board and the JCP is Doug Lea, of the State University of New York, JCP representatives said.

Also during the session, Mark Hornick, a JCP specification lead for data mining, said the JCP needed to ponder the issue of non-Java-based implementations of Java technologies to ensure they do not diverge from the standard.

Posted by Paul Krill on May 9, 2007 05:20 PM

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