Ubuntu to include enterprise Java

Author: Gareth Halfacree

Linux fans will be pleased at news coming out of OSCON that the popular Ubuntu distribution is to get a fully-fledged Java Enterprise Edition framework built-in.

According to comments made by the Canonical’s server engineering manager Rick Clark and reported by The Register today, the company is hoping to provide a full Java EE framework in the 9.04 release of the software due in April 2009. While Apache Tomcat is due for inclusion in the 8.10 release due in October, and provides users with a Java serverlet container, Clark has stated that the company considers it “very important [...] to get a full Java stack out of the box.”

Although Canonical is keeping shtum on exactly which framework it’s likely to pick, The Register predicts that Sun’s GlassFish 3.0 is a leading contender. It certainly ticks all the boxes, and the company already distributes the Sun-owned open-source database package MySQL with its server-oriented distribution. GlassFish is also lightweight and easy to maintain compared to some other Java EE implementations like Apache’s Geronimo, with an average install needing just 40 .jar packages compared to the 280 required by Geronimo.
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By Sean Michael Kerner:

There was a time when Java and C# were all an enterprise developer really needed to know in terms of programming languages. Today, that’s no longer the case.

Language proliferation and integration is becoming a key development challenge as enterprises find themselves adopting a variety of languages for mission-critical applications.

To Tim Bray, director of Web technologies at Sun and the co-author of XML (define), not only is an era of language proliferation upon us, the sole way an enterprise can cope is to be open.

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