ASF : Apache Software Foundation
EC : Executive Committee
EE : Enterprise Edition
JCP : Java Community Process
JSR : Java Specification Request
JSPA : Java Specification Participation Agreement
SE : Standard Edition
TCK : Test Compatibility Kit
Dear Java,
We remember when you used to be cool. Now you spend all of your time drinking and hanging out with lawyers. We are leaving and taking the dog and all of the CDs with us.
Love, Apache
If a hypothetical Java Servlet API v4.0 would be released they could still make Tomcat be compliant with it.
On the other hand Tomcat is very widely used in the not-quite-huge-enterprise companies and it is obviously helpful for a spec if all implementers can agree on some common ground before it is written. ECMA probably wouldn't see a point in doing ES5 if Microsoft and Mozilla would not talk to them.
What do you think would happen in order for a library to be certified (passed a certain TCK) would require to pay Oracle a huge amount of money?
Oracle can get more money from IBM, RedHat, SpringSource (SS uses a modified Tomcat for their tcServer) and a slew bunch of other companies.
Whether they'll do it or not, I don't know.
You said you wanted to be friends, but Oracle just wants us as fans. We need more in a relationship.
Love, Apache
We are breaking up, except this time, it's not me, it's you
-Kicking ass and taking names
FOU: field-of-use restrictions (in the TCK license).
Now the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that Oracle is eliminating the VM's on mobile not because they have competency there (Ellison is smart enough know it would be a forgone battle to try to now edge in between IOS and Android) but rather to clear the market for a sympathetic partner that will split the purse. And I think that partner is none other than Apple.
I find the timing of Apple relinquishing the JDK back to Oracle timely and suspicious further both Steve and Larry know that the other has significant competencies is separate, independent, non-overlapping, but complementary markets. If the mobile market it seceded to a closed vertical vendor they are free to chose who become the infrastructure to support the new global mobile network. I think the land has already been divided up and now it is just time to play the battle out.