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The Etch release was the first one to provide Sun's JDK environment without the need to download it from third-party repositories (see Java 5 and 6, Section 7.3.1).
As part of the effort to move Java packages to main, 36 new Java packages were
moved to main after being built with free Java development tools. Notably,
ant (a Java-based build tool), libstruts1.2-java (a
MVC framework), tomcat5 (a Java servlet engine) and
eclipse (a developer's environment platform) have been moved to
main. For the full list see the Debian wiki.
At the time of writing, 209 Java packages were found in main, of which 119 were Java libraries. To see the list of packages in main (i.e., not contrib and non-free), try:
grep-available -F Depends -sSection,Package java | paste -sd " \n" | \
grep -v contrib | grep -v non-free | sort
There are additional packages in the contrib section which can be found with a command similar as the one above.
The pkg-java
website also maintains a list (probably more up to date) of java packages.
An overview of packages that are still not in main is found at the Debian Wiki
site: MovingToMain.
The current status, as of this writing (june 2004) is that there is progress of
moving packages that use Java but can be run without the aid of non-free
software from contrib to main. A number of packages have been moved to main
and new releases of GNU Classpath, SableVM, and Kaffe promise further steps
ahead. Two of the major issues currently being looked at are making gjdoc a
proper javadoc replacement and building ant with Free Software only. People
wanting to help can start by inspecting packages labeled as unknown on the
Java to main
wiki
In November 2006 Sun announced that Java would be open sourced under the GPL and provided source for the javac compiler and HotSpot virtual machine. Sun published their Java sources under the name OpenJDK. A small part, initially some 4% and by 2008 down to 1%, mainly in the Class library, is missing from the sources, because Sun does not hold the copyright themselves.
Debian has a roadmap to publish all of Sun's opensource Java technologies as
described in the Debconf7 talk:
OpenJDK and the Free Java Packaging Roadmap. The current version of
the roadmap is at the Debian Java Wiki.
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Debian GNU/Linux Java FAQ.
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