First off, Oracle could kill Oracle Java Runtime Environment, but the API of Java is open and implemented e.g. by OpenJDK (currently also Oracle-maintained, but not as easily killed.). Oracle could quit Java today if it wanted to (whether this is an actual intent or just political posturing w/r/t the Google lawsuit is irrelevant - killing your cash cow would be a desperate move) - it would not mean that options for running Java apps would disappear.
In other words, the sky is *not* falling: rushing to port the JOSM toolchain to a different language would be extremely premature. Best regards, Jan "Piskvor" Martinec Dne ne 22. 4. 2018 20:44 uživatel john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> napsal: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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