IcedTea's OpenJDK Passes Java Test Compatibility Kit 271
emyar writes "At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology. [...] This week the IcedTea Project reached an important milestone — The latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the rigorous Java Test Compatibility Kit (TCK). This means that it provides all the required Java APIs and behaves like any other Java SE 6 implementation — in keeping with the portability goal of the Java platform."
Re:Really ? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Really ? (Score:5, Funny)
Man! Was that joke ever funning circa 1997...
Re:Really ? (Score:5, Funny)
Man! Was that joke ever funning circa 1997...
Re:Language Compatibility vs. Class Libraries (Score:5, Funny)
> of important use cases, redesigned the class libraries to be much less "fluffy"
Somebody did just this [python.org] already.
Re:Really ? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ask Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mono needs a similar testsuite. (Score:4, Funny)
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Spelling (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Perfomance (Score:5, Funny)
Although 4% doesn't sound like much, it's actually just short of 8 billion lines. It sounds unbelievable that they could accomplish that so quickly, but Java's strength is in making it easy to write large amounts of code.
Re:Really ? (Score:5, Funny)
The One True Language, beloved by all (Objective-C) also uses 2 GiB of RAM for "Hello World", but just because it needs to use that memory to cure cancer and feed starving children.
Re:Perfomance (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know, that Ice T guy seems to be pretty talented. First he's a rapper, then he's an actor, now he's writing Java....what?
Oh, nevermind....
Re:Just use a glove (Score:1, Funny)
Thank you for working so hard to make this happen!
Now if only PulseAudio would work properly on F9 with my NVIDIA MCP51 chipset and ALSA...
Re:Perfomance (Score:3, Funny)
AFAIK, GP was making a joke.
Sincerely,
GP
Re:Perfomance (Score:3, Funny)