Ian Murdock’s Weblog

Geir Magnusson: “What exactly is the result when the distros compile and package the OpenJDK source? I’ll argue it’s by definition not “Java^TM” (or “Java compatible”) because it hasn’t passed the TCK [the Technology Compatibility Kit, the Java compatibility test suite from Sun].”

Very good question. I agree with Geir—it shouldn’t be called Java unless it has passed the test suite. If it’s cost prohibitive to run the test suite against third party versions, that should be remedied now that the reference implementation is open source.

(Via James Governor.)

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