Red Hat Signs On to Advance Open Source Java Technology
Red Hat has joined Sun in advancing open source Java software by signing Sun’s broad contributor agreement and its OpenJDK Community TCK License Agreement. These agreements will allow Red Hat to participate in all Sun-led open source projects and help determine whether an implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) platform, derived from the OpenJDK project, complies with the Java SE 6 specification.
“It is a vote of confidence to have Red Hat, a leader in open source, engaging with the community on such a broad scale,” commented Rich Green, executive vice president, Software at Sun. “When we open-sourced our Java software implementation, we hoped to see just this kind of collaboration between the GNU/Linux world and the Java technology ecosystem.”
Red Hat plans to create a fully compatible, open source Java Development Kit (JDK) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), and bring tighter alignment with the IcedTea project, which melds Fedora and JBoss.org technologies in a Linux environment.