[off-topic] Sony releases PS Vita SDK

[SomeDude]

On Friday, 20 April 2012 at 18:11:45 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
>
> Through the Java Community Process (http://jcp.org). Basically, 
> it's where the proposals for APIs are reviewed. It started 
> after many people found that the Sun APIs sucked (basically, 
> Sun didn't have the manpower to follow all the requests of 
> their users) and founded the Apache and Spring projects to 
> compensate for some missing parts (the logging API for 
> instance).
> Afterwards, key developers of those open source projects became 
> active part of the JCP, and companies followed.
>
Rereading this paragraph, I find this is somewhat inaccurate. Sun 
AFAIK has nothing to do with Apache and Spring, and the JCP 
started before these open source projects. What I wanted to 
stress though, was that many important and successful APIs have 
been developed after open source developments, and were designed 
by members of these communities (several of which were employed 
by big companies afterwards). An example being the "Enterprise 
JavaBeans", which were enterprise crap when designed by Sun (EJB1 
and EJB2), and they finally got it right after the lead developer 
of the Hibernate project came onboard.