Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blackdown Java


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. A merge discussion might be pursued on the article's talk page, as Pcap mentioned. Regards,   A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 00:37, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Blackdown Java

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This article on a minor defunct Java fork appears to be pretty much entirely self-sourced. The only reference that's not from the project itself is a blog noting its demise. Guy (Help!) 20:18, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.  -- --Darkwind (talk) 21:20, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Notability is not temporary & it is notable that this was a default package in many Linux distributions.  Google Books has a dozen pages of hits for Blackdown Java.  Admittedly, some of this coverage is cursory.  But there seems to be enough in Building Embedded Linux Systems to source this article & there are InfoWorld and AUGGN articles that provide decent coverage too.  --Karnesky (talk) 21:46, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge with JDK and perhaps mention in OpenJDK. It is notable as the 1st Java implementation on Linux, which had Sun's blessing/licensing (see Linux Journal story). The article is unlikely to expand beyond its current size, so it's more suitable as a section in the history of the JDK. The Blackdown code did not depart significantly from SunSoft's reference implementation, but there were some changes. It's not a matter of deleting this content tough, only where to best place it. We currently don't have good articles on this stuff. SunfSoft's reference implementation was considerably different than Sun's Solaris JDK implementation; the latter had a whole lot of optimizations. There are references about this kind of stuff. Pcap  ping  14:02, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
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