Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Applet, Xalan, Xerces, Apache POI, OpenJDK, Apache Harmony, Standard Widget Toolkit, Swing, Apache Ant, ZK, Java Class Library, Java OpenGL, JMonkey Engine, GNU Classpath, ImageJ, IText, Vaadin, Nutch, Pluggable look and feel, XML Interface for Network Services, Bonita Open Solution, Lucene, JFugue, Internet Foundation Classes, Apache Shiro, Apache CXF, Languageware, Undecimber, Synth Look and Feel, ThinWire, Batik, Apache Commons, SwingLabs, Checkstyle, Java Object Oriented Querying, ObjectWeb ASM, VisualAp, Modular Audio Recognition Framework, JVx, Flying Saucer, Formatting Objects Processor, Bouncy Castle, Java-gnome, StableUpdate, Qoppa PDF Libraries, JBPM, XDoclet, Compass Project, Apache Wink, JRuntime, Apache Abdera, Ardor3D, Lightweight Java Game Library, JMusic, Commons Daemon, JPedal, FreeHEP, JGraph, JDBCFacade, Cassowary, Javassist, Mallet, Dom4j, Java OpenAL, AspectWerkz, J2ME Army Knife, Jbpm5, Colt, Qoca, Atlassian Seraph, Mandarax, Xmlenc. Excerpt: OpenJDK (aka Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open source implementation of the Java programming language. It is the result of an effort Sun Microsystems began in 2006. The implementation is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) with a linking exception, which exempts components of the Java class library from the GPL licensing terms. OpenJDK will become the official Java SE 7 reference implementation. Sun announced in JavaOne 2006 that Java would become open-source software, and on October 25, 2006, at the Oracle OpenWorld conference, Jonathan Schwartz said that the company intended to announce the open-sourcing of the core Java Platform within 30 to 60 days. Sun released the Java HotSpot virtual machine and compiler as free software under the GNU General Public License on November 13, 2006, with a promise that the rest of the JDK (wh...