Fewer applications are using JAVA and it looks as if Oracle is withdrawing from JAVA. It was originally developed by SUN who were taken over by Oracle.
Someone who worked at Oracle has mentioned Oracle would like to be out of JAVA by 2020 and that is the date for individual free licenses to expire. It does have a number of security problems but iD doesn't do have the tricks that JOSM does. Could it be rewritten in a different language? How would the plugins be handled? We have some time to look at alternatives but it might be better not to leave it to the last few days. Thoughts? Thanks John
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