IcedTea6 1.9 and VisualVM 1.0

[Posted September 10, 2010 by ris]

IcedTea6 1.9 is a major new release from the IcedTea project. One notable change is that VisualVM support has been removed from IcedTea. Instead VisualVM has been split out to allow for easier packaging, avoiding the need for OpenJDK builds to be dependent on NetBeans platform changes leading to the release of VisualVM Harness 1.0.

IcedTea6 1.9 and VisualVM 1.0

Posted Sep 10, 2010 19:54 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (5 responses)

...following on from Oracle v. Google discussion...

Having never written Java, I'm a bit lost among the versions. I'm looking to make a list of what Java software has been distributed by Oracle under GPLv2. I see:

* Java SE (as OpenJDK)
* Java ME (as PhoneME)

Are there other Java packages/systems/platforms/versions/standards/sets that Oracle distributes under GPLv2?

And are there version specifics that must be kept in mind about what Oracle publishes (e.g. 7.9 is GPL'd but 8.5 isn't, or whatever)?

Thanks.

IcedTea6 1.9 and VisualVM 1.0

Posted Sep 10, 2010 21:19 UTC (Fri) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link] (4 responses)

Their Java EE implementation called GlashFish https://glassfish.dev.java.net/ Which was previously already released under the CDDL, but when OpenJDK and PhoneME were released under the GPL they added GPL+exception dual licensing for it.

Sun really did go the whole way with the major Micro Edition, Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition reference implementations.

Although all variants are also still offered under proprietary licenses. Which sometimes causes a bit of conflict:
http://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2009/11/14/trusting-co...

There is lots of Sun/Oracle Java related stuff all under various free and/or proprietary licenses. Their whole IDE environment NetBeans is also Free Software (like Glashfish dual licensed CDDL and GPL+exception). But then there is also JavaFX which has some free parts, but is mainly proprietary.

http://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2007/08/17/sun-propose...

http://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2008/08/01/the-javafx-...

IcedTea6 1.9 and VisualVM 1.0

Posted Sep 13, 2010 13:25 UTC (Mon) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Thanks. And thanks for the replies on your blog.

IcedTea6 1.9 and VisualVM 1.0

Posted Sep 17, 2010 5:29 UTC (Fri) by mfedyk (guest, #55303) [Link] (2 responses)

doesn't openjdk have a restriction against use in the mobile space? doesn't that refute your claim that javame was opened?

IcedTea6 1.9 and VisualVM 1.0

Posted Sep 17, 2010 6:06 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (guest, #21946) [Link]

Afaik, there is no such restriction. Such a restriction would be incompatible with GPL.

IcedTea6 1.9 and VisualVM 1.0

Posted Sep 17, 2010 6:09 UTC (Fri) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]

There is no such restriction on any of the openjdk/phoneme/glassfish projects. The GPL, but really every free software licence, would be incompatible with such a restriction.

IcedTea6 1.9 and VisualVM 1.0

Posted Sep 11, 2010 14:35 UTC (Sat) by cyperpunks (subscriber, #39406) [Link] (1 responses)

How does this relates to JVM 1.7.0?

IcedTea6 1.9 and VisualVM 1.0

Posted Sep 13, 2010 10:04 UTC (Mon) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]

> How does this relates to JVM 1.7.0?

The IcedTea6 subproject tracks the 1.6 effort. You can find the IcedTea[7] effort that tracks 1.7 also at http://icedtea.classpath.org/ The repository is currently just called "icedtea" (might one day branch into "icedtea7" when that effort is officially finalized - and then the main "icedtea" repo will track the future 1.8 efforts).