Forking Java, not a good idea at the moment

There have been a few blogs about forking Java and some discussion around. I'm just recollecting a couple of answers that I gave to two mailing lists, mainly for my own reference. These are some of the related talks: http://www.dzone.com/links/is_it_time_to_fork_java.html http://blog.eisele.net/2010/10/free-java-jcpnext-here-are-options.html http://sacha.labourey.com/2010/10/04/time-to-fork-java-si-vis-pacem-para-bellum I'm pretty negative about the idea of forking Java now - it seems just bad timing. There are a few individuals that are declaring the big failure of Oracle's stewardship, and failure the past J1, and I'd first like to learn how they are representative. I must also say that while I'm not satisfied by some things that Oracle is doing (more precisely, things that it is not doing, such communicating some sensible points), I don't understand how this idea of forking comes after J1, where some light has been shed upon strategies (Java 7 and 8, a roadmap up to 2012) that have been very badly managed by Sun, not Oracle, in the past two years (see e.g. Mario Fusco's comments about the infeasibility of the original Java 7 plans that were made public one year ago). BTW, the whole community is not representative, in the sense that there is no formal democratic delegation model; in any case, I suppose JUGs are more representative than individuals and I'd first like what are ...

Date: October, 05 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2010/10/05/forking-java-not-good-idea-moment

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