java.net was a

Java technology Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's most ...

related community website. It also offered a web-based

source code repository In version control systems, a repository is a data structure that stores metadata for a set of files or directory structure. Depending on whether the version control system in use is distributed, like Git or Mercurial, or centralized, like Sub ...

for

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mo ...

projects. It was shut down in April 2017.

History

java.net was announced by

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, ...

during JavaOne 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 forges will be going dark on April 28, 2017."

Javapedia

The Javapedia project was launched in June 2003 during the JavaOne developer conference. It is part of java.net. The project aims at creating an online encyclopedia covering all aspects of the

Java platform Java is a set of computer software and specifications developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, which was later acquired by the Oracle Corporation, that provides a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cro ...

.The Javapedia Project from Sun Microsystems White Papers at ZDNet UK
/ref> 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 ( TWiki), links (

camelCase Camel case (sometimes stylized as camelCase or CamelCase, also known as camel caps or more formally as medial capitals) is the practice of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation. The format indicates the separation of words with a single c ...

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

Notes

External links

java.net

Javapedia
Free software websites Wiki communities Java platform Computing websites {{compu-website-stub

History

Javapedia

See also

Notes

External links