Oracle Removes Java Signatures, Breaking Webstart 198
sproketboy writes "It seems Oracle has decided in their infinite wisdom to remove digital signatures from the Java projects that they put into the open source community. Of course this breaks any application out there depending on Java Webstart using these libs. Looks like Java3D and JAI are currently affected — probably other APIs are as well. Oh Oracle! What are we supposed to do with you?"
Re:destroying open source (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, Oracle might not have bought Sun if they could not sue Android:
" Miguel De Icaza has provided a very interesting insight into the case. His report has been confirmed by James Gosling, known as the father of Java who left Sun right after the merger. Icaza speculates that the potential to monetise on Java by suing Google was pitched by Jonathan Schwartz during Sun's sales talks with Oracle. Oh boy."
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/13/android-oracle-java-lawsuit/ [techcrunch.com]
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Aug-13.html [tirania.org]
http://www.osnews.com/story/23684/De_Icaza_Sun_s_Schwartz_Pitched_Google_Lawsuit_to_Oracle [osnews.com]
Re:Shot themselves in the foot (Score:4, Informative)
Many of the Oracle enterprise applications are Web Start applications.
But they don't use Java3D or JAI, and thus won't have this problem. Honestly, I'm not surprised at this move. Java3D and JMF have been neglected by Sun for years, and are pretty much considered to be abandoned APIs (for example JMF has no x86-64 support, and Java3D only supports the software renderer for x86-64). We have been moving away from them wherever possible.