Developers using Fedora 9 or Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) can now count on free software implementations based on Java technology as a standard element of an open source developer stack since the OpenJDK has been included into the latest releases of the two open source softwares. This move now opens the door for numerous Java technology-based offerings to be included in the core of these GNU/Linux distributions.
Users who have struggled to learn the Java programming language will be pleased with the news reported by InformationWeek's Charles Babcock, which is that Sun is working on the release of Java FX, a scripting language based on a byte code that can run in the standard Java Virtual Machine (JVM) but that will be much easier to learn and to use than Java itself. Sun plans a demonstration of Java FX during the upcoming JavaOne 2008 Conference.
Sun and Innaworks have been collaborating on bringing Java applications to Apple's iPhone, even with the Cupertino, Calif.-based corporation's reluctance to publicly support the programming language on its popular mobile phone device. Sun also has not given up its pursuit of having a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) placed on the iPhone through the iPhone SDK.
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