Sun is asking the developer community to help
attack the new
bytecode verifier in Mustang. Here's some background on how
and why the community can help here.
In developing Java SE 6 ("Mustang") we have adopted a more open, community-based, development model. As part of
that we are releasing complete binaries and sources for all our
weekly Mustang builds at
mustang.dev.java.net and
we are...
Sun has announced an agreement with Google to distribute the
Google toolbar along with consumer Java SE downloads from
java.com.
Here's what is happening and why.
The Background
We've been working for several years to increase adoption of the
latest Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) among home consumers on
the internet.
We've been pursuing two tactics. First, we've been working with
the...