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Red Hat has announced that it has signed two deals with Sun Microsystems thanks to which the upcoming
versions of its Red Hate Enterprise Linux will start to integrate a fully
compatible open-source Java Development Kit or JDK. For this thing to become
possible, Red Hat has had to sign Sun Microsystems’ broad contributor
agreement, according to which Red Hat’s engineers will start participating in
all the open-source projects led by Sun Microsystems.
Red Hat has also had to sign Sun
Microsystems’ OpenJDK Community Technology Compatibility Kit (or TCK) License
Agreement. Thanks to this agreement Red Hat will get full access to the test
suite, which determines whether an implementation of Java Standard Edition complies
with the Java SE 6 specifications. These agreements have paved the way for Red
Hat to create a Java Development Kit for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including
the Java Runtime Environment.
According to the vice president
of JBoss products at Red Hat, Shaun Connolly, thanks to these two deals the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux users will finally be able to create “one of the key
missing ingredients of the open-source stack”, that is an open-source Java
Development Kit implementation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. "We feel this
will help accelerate the direction and innovation and performance ... by
letting the larger community, the larger collection of eyeballs, get access to
that.” – Shaun Connolly has also added.
According to Connolly, thanks to
this move, the corporate users of the Red Ha operating systems will become able
to also get help directly from Red Hat rather than through third-party
providers.
However, before being included
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the JDK will be first developed and tested in
Red Hat’s Fedora community-based Linux operating system.
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