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At the JavaOne event in May 2007 Sun announced that the deployment issues with Java would be solved in two
major updates during the lifespan of Java 6 (the changes will not be held over to Java 7.) These include:
• the introduction of a new consumer JRE edition, with an initial 2Mb footprint and the ability to download the
remaining 9Mb in sections using an on-demand methodology.
• the development of drop-in cross platform JavaScript code, which can be used from a web page to install the
necessary JRE for a given applet or Rich Internet Application to run, if necessary.
• an improvement in support for automatically downloading updates to the JRE.
• support for pre-loading of the JRE, so applets and applications written in Java start up almost instantaneously.
See also
• Comparison of Java and C# languages
• Java programming language
• C#
External links
• ECMA-335 Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), 4th edition (June 2006) [50] Free download of Ecma CLI
standard
• ISO/IEC 23271:2006 Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) Partitions I to VI [51] The official ISO/IEC CLI
standard
References
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[2] Free and Open Source Java - Project Overview (http:/ / www. sun. com/ software/ opensource/ java/ project_overview. jsp)
[3] Sun openjdk: Home (http:/ / openjdk. java. net/ )
[4] Sun Java 2 Runtime License Agreement (http:/ / java. sun. com/ j2se/ 1. 4. 2/ j2re-1_4_2_13-license. txt)
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dont-depend-on-mono). Free Software Foundation. . Retrieved 2009-07-02. "We should systematically arrange to depend on the free C#
implementations as little as possible. In other words, we should discourage people from writing programs in C#. Therefore, we should not
include C# implementations in the default installation of GNU/Linux distributions, and we should distribute and recommend non-C#
applications rather than comparable C# applications whenever possible."
[11] "Microsoft's Empty Promise" (http:/ / www. fsf. org/ news/ 2009-07-mscp-mono). Free Software Foundation. 2009-07-16. . Retrieved
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be attacked by Microsoft's patents: the Community Promise is designed to give the company several outs if it wants them. We don't want to see
developers' hard work lost to the community if we lose the ability to use Mono, and until we eliminate software patents altogether, using
another language is the best way to prevent that from happening."
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[17] Mono-Applications-Aplenty!, OSNews (http:/ / www. osnews. com/ story. php/ 9780/ Mono-Applications-Aplenty!)