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Java upgrades: Animals no more |
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Contributed by Joe
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
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Sun Microsystems has dropped the mammal and marine-life code names of planned upgrades to the Java platform, renaming the Mustang and Dolphin projects JDK (Java Standard Edition Development Kit) 6 and JDK 7, respectively.
Ray Gans, senior program manager at Sun siad "Yes, we must retire some old friends, Management says it's time to drop these code names and develop a new project naming system around our open source model. Better now than after Dolphin gets firmly entrenched - and as for Mustang, well it's almost done anyway. So with some sadness, we're walking Mustang out from her stable one last time to let her roam free in the meadows and we're opening the gate so Dolphin can return to the sea. Code names come and go and it's time to move on to our bright new future, |
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