Java soon to be opened !

Here is a good news for Nuxeo 5 : Sun CEO sets open source Java time frame

As we read in a few discussion threads after the release of  NXRuntime and Nuxeo Core, some people were pointing out that, with our Java switch, we weren't using a full open source stack anymore. These discussions will be over soon.

As well, some people asked us if we considered making Nuxeo 5 running using gcj. Well, ... we have been trying to leverage gcj with the NXLucene project where we were using Lucene through gcj. This is working ok but what a pain... It appeared to be extremely complicated to find the right version of gcj depending on the target platform on production and that caused us lots of worries... So definitely not a viable option. Ask the hosting companies if you are not convinced ... As well, a lot of work is required at application level while trying to port gcj-based application on upper versions of gcj because of bugs in the compiler itself. So much frustration...

Furthermore, we can expect Java enabled Linux distributions out of the box in the future with Java applications pre-installed and shipped with the distribution itself : for instance JBoss AS.

Because of the fact that Nuxeo bas been caring about open source for more than 6 years, playing the open source game and choosing a core business fully based on a transparent open source model, we are more than happy that this time frame set announcement comes up almost at the same time as the release of Nuxeo 5.