![]() Red Hat also started, wrote much of, and leads the 64-bit ARMv8 port, AArch64 for OpenJDK, and helped move it into the upstream OpenJDK project. Haley explains more about our stewardship in this post on the Red Hat Developer Blog. ![]() ![]() For example, Red Hat assumed leadership of OpenJDK 6 in 2013 through its end of life in 2016 and took over stewardship of OpenJDK 7 in 2015. Since joining the OpenJDK project in 2007, Red Hat has continued contributing in the upstream OpenJDK community, as well as packaging and supporting OpenJDK with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In 2009, Sun was acquired by Oracle and the relationship that had developed between Sun and Red Hat was continued under Oracle. Red Hat’s Andrew Haley currently holds a seat on the OpenJDK Governing Board, and Red Hat is one of the largest contributors after Oracle.īy doing this, Red Hat was deepening its participation in the Java ecosystem, which was significant after its acquisition of JBoss in the previous year. As part of this, Red Hat signed Sun’s OpenJDK Community TCK License Agreement, becoming the first major software vendor to do so.Īs part of the announcement, Red Hat also committed to sharing its developers’ contributions with Sun to further create the OpenJDK community and foster innovation. This agreement covered the participation of Red Hat engineers in all Sun-led open source projects. Red Hat announced an agreement with Sun Microsystems, signing on to a broad contributor agreement, on Nov. Over the next few years, the major components of the Java Platform were released as free and open source software using the GPL. At JavaOne 2006, Sun announced that Java and the core Java Platform would be open sourced. OpenJDK started as a free and open source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition, as a result of a 2006 initiative by Sun Microsystems. Subsequent posts will cover the ecosystem changes and Red Hat’s plans going forward. Red Hat anticipates that many of our customers will need to review their current Java plans and we want to take this opportunity to review the history of our relationship with the OpenJDK community, discuss the changes in the Java ecosystem, and describe Red Hat’s Java offerings. Some of the changes are happening in the upstream OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) community, and some of the changes are happening in proprietary commercial distributions of Java. In the second half of 2017, a number of major changes were announced in the Java ecosystem that have the potential to force a reassessment of Java roadmaps and vendor selection for enterprise Java users.
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