Authored by: jbb on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 09:59 PM EDT |
Great catch! I too looked around and could not find the Spring company Larry
was referring to. I'd bet money that there is *no* company making money from
making an incompatible re-implementation of the core Java APIs. We should
probably search hard to find out if there is any other company he could possibly
(now) claim he was referring to.
I can't blame Google's lawyers for not
catching this. There has to be some presumption of honesty when the CEO of a
multi-billion dollar corporation testifies under oath (h'mmm, perhaps that is a
bad assumption). The problem was they just didn't have the technical expertise
to realize how wildly improbably Ellison's claim was.
I have no doubt
that this sneaky trick was thought out ahead of time. It fits into a pattern of
BS&F dirty tricks. They have found ways to game the legal system to give
themselves unfair advantages. Someday the system will need to be fixed so
people can't systematically benefit from intentional perjury. In the meantime,
we have to rely on judges to raise the issue again after the side that was
victimized has a chance to do a little research.
--- Our job is to
remind ourselves that there are more contexts than the one we’re in now — the
one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 10:19 PM EDT |
Groovy on Rails?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grails_(framework)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: PJ on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 11:51 PM EDT |
Interesting. It is possible the reporter
wrote down the wrong name, also. If anyone
has the time, please read all the coverage
of Ellison's time on the stand by other
journalists and see what you find on this
point about Spring or SpringSource.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: jbb on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 02:05 AM EDT |
link(4-page
pdf)
SPRINGBOARD is a set of java classes that can be plugged
directly into your
J2EE Internet solutions, and save months of development time.
With
springboard you get:
- Real-time credit card processing.
-
Integrated E-mail, SMS & FAX
transmission capabilities.
- User
registration and authentication
mechanisms.
- Batch Processing and scheduling
engine
- Fast tracked database handlers
- Fully J2EE
compliant
Like the other one (and probably all others ones),
I'm sure they are using the core Java APIs and just building on top of them.
--- Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 04:04 AM EDT |
To be fair with Oracle, Spring does replace a lot of APIs SUN wanted to make
'core' for Enterprise apps (except they bungled theirs so much there was a
market for a different API).
Remember that while SUN/Oracle is screaming about 'fragmentation' they *did*
segment their market extensively in J2ME, J2SE, and J2EE (and segmentation is
nothing but fragmentation 'justified' by increased earnings).
One of the things Spring allows is building apps in the segment J2EE targets
using only J2SE + additional Spring APIs.
The main reason the Java ecosystem was ripe for an Android-like endeavour was
the extensive way SUN weakened Java integrity to try to make a few more bucks
while fighting for survival : J2EE vs Spring (SpringSource) and others,
GlassFish vs Tomcat (Apache), Java modules vs OSGI (Eclipse/IBM), openjdk vs
harmony (Apache) vs java 1.6 (SUN, yes there was also massive insider infighting
and it appears in one of the testimonies), Swing vs JavaFX vs SWT (Eclipse/IBM)
vs anyone that actually tried to build java gui apps, focusing their tooling
efforts on windows (where they had no presence) rather than giving any help to
Linux since it competed with Solaris, etc
SUN wanted the influence of being Java's steward, but mostly behaved like a
petty chief that resented anyone else that made Java enhancements, and made a
lot of decisions which had no technical sense at all (like tight control on J2ME
while letting it rot) but aimed solely at improving its own bottom like (and
like many bad decisions motivated by greed a lot of them backfired big time).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 04:33 AM EDT |
In the UK there is a recruitment company called
Spring
http://www.spring.com/
And there is also the Spring class in the swing
framework
javax.swing.Spring (from
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/)
Not really UK based though unless
someone from the UK donated it to Java[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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