Authored by: lwoggardner on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 12:36 AM EDT |
I'm sure you have this but the reporter in Ellison's
testimony
called it
"SpringBoard".
Note sure when you updated the article but you pointed to this comment that first
associated
that with "SpringSource" or "Spring".
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Authored by: kds on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 01:06 AM EDT |
Name & Registered Office:
SPRINGSOURCE LIMITED
5 NEW STREET SQUARE
LONDON
EC4A
3TW
Company No. 05187766
Of course you can always search for other
"Spring" companies here.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 01:41 AM EDT |
Spring Source Community still exits. Here is the web site:
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 09:45 AM EDT |
I think Ellison did mean SpringSource.
However, Spring is a library built on top of the existing
core Java APIs with the intent to make them it easier to use
and to augment and/or enhance their ugly bits. Spring was
never used as a replacement for core Java libraries (i.e.
you still need all of the core APIs to make Spring work).
However, many developers did use it as an alternative (not a
replacement) for non-core APIs such as those added in the
set of J2EE specifications (Sun developed many non-core APIs
this way through a community process called the JCP). The
J2EE APIs were complex and unwieldy for many developers, so
they often chose to use the Spring APIs instead. This, by
the way, made Sun quite unhappy. I can only assume Ellison
was referring to this incorrectly.
Interesting to note, because Spring builds on the core Java
APIs, much of it works under Android unmodified. I think
this is at the heart of what Google wanted to gain with
their implementation -- the ability to reuse the wealth of
existing open source APIs that had already been developed
for Java.
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