Java 9: A Global Community Is Behind Programming's Next Big Advance
Feature planning is underway for Java SE 9, the next major update to the language and platform used by millions of developers around the world. An initial set of Java Enhancement Proposals targeting JDK 9, the open source Reference Implementation of the Java SE 9 platform, has been released.
The feature set that will ultimately be included in Java 9 is not simply in the hands of a team of technologists and executives atOracle ORCL -0.63%, which holds the Java trademark and stewards the development of the platform. Formal processes are in place for proposing, approving, and executing on features, and a global community of developers supports that effort.
To understand how Java SE 9 will come to fruition, here are eight things you need to know about the Java development process.
1. Java is open. Sun Microsystems, owner of the Java platform before being acquired by Oracle, released the complete Java source code of the class library under the General Public License (GPL) in May 2007, except for some limited parts that were licensed to third parties.
2. OpenJDK community facilitates collaboration. The OpenJDK Project provides a place for the Java community to collaborate on the primary implementation of the Java SE platform. Community members can build and hack on the code itself, contribute a patch to fix a bug, enhance an existing component, or define a new feature. The OpenJDK JDK 8 Project released the open-source Reference Implementation of Java SE 8 in March 2014, and the community’s attention is now turning to JDK 9.
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