Oracle and IBM are collaborating to allow developers and customers to build and innovate based on existing Java investments and the OpenJDK reference implementation. Specifically, the companies will collaborate in the OpenJDK project to develop an open source Java environment. The two companies said they would make OpenJDK the primary location for Open Source Java SE development. The Java Community Process (JCP) will continue to be the primary standards body for Java specification work, and both companies will work to continue to enhance the JCP.
The collaboration will centre on the OpenJDK project, the open source implementation of the Java standard edition (Java SE) speci fication, the Java Language, the Java development kit (JDK) and Java SE runtime environment (JRE). Oracle and IBM will support the recently announced OpenJDK development road map, which accelerates the availability of Java SE across the open source community.