java.net was
a
Java technology
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related community website. It also offered a web-based
source code repository for
Java 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, the ...
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
forge
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s 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.
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
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is used), and content licensing ( Creative Commons 1.0 Attribution license).
See also
* Comparison of source code hosting facilities
Notes
External links
java.net
Javapedia
Free software websites
Wiki communities
Java platform
Computing websites
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