The Register: Ground Work Laid for Open Source Java

"Open source Java is on the horizon following support for changes to a Sun Microsystems-backed industry body overseeing development of the platform and programming language...

"Java Community Process (JCP) members have voted to alter the community's structure, officially supporting open source implementations of Java. Called JCP 2.5, changes were approved on October 29.

"The first instance of Java expected to be open sourced under these changes is the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 platform, which Santa Clara, California-based Sun said is due in the first quarter of 2003..."

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