InfoWorld: JBoss�s Fleury: The ‘Benevolent Dictator’ is Good for Java

“InfoWorld: JBoss was considered somewhat of a renegade in the
Java world until recently. How did the reconciliation with Sun come
about?

“Fleury: We finally reached an agreement on the specification
licensing of J2EE 1.4. The big innovation there was that for the
first time an open source implementer could license it, so we have.
Right now, we’re writing the EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) 3.0 spec
with Sun and bringing back a lot of the innovation that we’ve been
pioneering in the open source community and the Java community.
We’re bringing that back into the standards…”

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