What has happened in the OpenJDK Project since the release of a fully buildable implementation at the 2007 JavaOne Conference?
The past 12 months have been very busy, with Sun and the Community working together to tackle many of the most challenging remaining tasks in delivering a fully free, compatible implementation of Java SE. Specifically: • On the first day of the code release, the Community demonstrated its enthusiasm for open source Java technology, when the Gentoo GNU/Linux distribution released an OpenJDK-based ebuild only 5 hours after the code became available, and the Fedora project released a source RPM only 18 hours after the announcement by Rich Green on the first day of JavaOne 2007. • One month later, on June 7, the Fedora project initiated “IcedTea”, an experimental patch set to remove the binary plugs from OpenJDK and replace them with free software alternatives where possible. • On August 9, 2007, Sun announced the OpenJDK Community TCK License, which gives OpenJDK-based implementations distributed under GPLv2 the ability to gain access to the Java Standard Edition Technology Compatibility
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