java.net was a Java technology related community website. It also offered a web-based

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for

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projects. It was shut down in April 2017.

History

java.net was announced by

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during

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2003. In January 2010, Oracle announced that it will migrate java.net portal to Project Kenai codebase, encouraging users to move their Kenai projects to java.net. In June 2016, Oracle announced that "the Java.net and Kenai.com

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s will be going dark on April 28, 2017."

Javapedia

The Javapedia project was launched in June 2003 during the

developer conference. It is part of java.net. The project aims at creating an online encyclopedia covering all aspects of the

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. The Javapedia project is openly inspired by Wikipedia. The prominent differences between ''Wikipedia'' and ''Javapedia'' include feature restrictions (for example, editing is open to registered users only), software used (

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), links (

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is used), and content licensing ( Creative Commons 1.0 Attribution license).

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Javapedia
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History

Javapedia

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