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Java virtual machine, runtime environment, and Web services stack given as examples of components that could be incrementally open sourced Expect the open-sourcing of the Java programming language to ...

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Expect the open-sourcing of the Java programming language to be done in incremental steps, with some pieces available by next June — but not the entire platform, Robert Brewin, co-CTO of Sun ...

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