Sun Endorse(?)s Apache Harmony, Will Participate
Graham Hamilton: Sun is a big supporter of Apache (this includes making donations of hardware and storage) and we're always very glad to see them participate in Java development. In many ways launching a J2SE project is the obvious next step in Apache's work around Java. Personally, I am very curious about how the Harmony project will work out - creating a full scale implementation of J2SE is a mammoth task, as the Sun J2SE team knows only too well. However I wish Apache success and we'll certainly be tracking this as it develops. We'll probably participate in the project at some level, although most of our efforts will continue to be focused on building Sun's reference implementation of J2SE.
Simon Phipps: I'd like to add my welcome to the Harmony project, a proposal (which I assume will be approved) over the Apache Incubator to grow a new, independent, up-to-date and 100% compatible implementation of v5 the Java platform. Things like this (and the new openness of the v6 - Mustang - work) renew my confidence in the promise of the Java community - read the FAQ to see more. This is just the sort of responsible, community-led evolution that the JCP rules were changed to facilitate.
Re: Who Are These People (was: Re: Open Source JVM Proposal On The Table At Apache Software Foundation)
Project Harmony =================== Motivation ---------- There is a clear need for an open-source version of Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) runtime platform, ...
Instead of offering my speculations as to the motivations and the genesis of this effort, let me draw your attention to the people whose names are mentioned in the proposal. I have added hyperlinks to the names based on the I'm Feeling Lucky Google search on the name:
These individuals have expressed an interest in participating in the architecture and design work. The information in parenthesis indicates other community participation or relevant experiences of that individual : Guy Churchward (individual w/ commercial VM experience) Joakim Dahlstedt (individual w/ commercial VM experience) Jeroen Frijters (IKVM) Geir Magnusson Jr. (Apache) Ricardo Morin (individual w/ commercial VM experience) Georges Saab (individual w/ commercial VM experience) Bruno Souza (SOUJava) Davanum Srinivas (Apache) Dalibor Topic (Kaffe) Tom Tromey (GCJ) Weldon Washburn (individual w/ commercial VM experience) Mark Wielaard (Classpath) and the following individuals have expressed interest in participating as committers for the Apache-licensed implementation : Jeroen Frijters (IKVM) Ben Laurie (Apache) Geir Magnusson Jr. (Apache) Ricardo Morin (individual w/ commercial VM experience) Bruno Souza (SOUJava) Davanum Srinivas (Apache) Dalibor Topic (Kaffe) Tom Tromey (GCJ) Weldon Washburn (individual w/ commercial VM experience) These individuals will participate as Incubator Mentors : Noel Bergman Ben Laurie Geir Magnusson Jr. Stefano Mazzocchi Sam Ruby Leo Simons Davanum Srinivas The following Apache Members will be the sponsoring members : Noel Bergman Jason Hunter Ben Laurie Ted Leung Geir Magnusson Jr. Stefano Mazzocchi Sam Ruby Leo Simons Davanum Srinivas The following community members support this effort : Danese Cooper Brian Goetz Doug Lea