Article: Everything and the Kitchen Sink; Sun microsystems encourages developers to experiment with java language

Sun Microsystems is encouraging developers to throw everything including the kitchen sink into evolving the Java language.

While Sun has announced its plans to open-source its Java technology, the Santa Clara, Calif., company plans to maintain the sanctity of the standard language while enabling developers to experiment on bringing new features to Java, said Peter von der Ahe, tech lead for the Sun Java Compiler, also known as Javac.

Von der Ahe has started a Sun incubator project known as KSL, or the Kitchen Sink Language, which will enable developers to "throw language features, no matter how absurd, just so that folks could play around. Now that Javac has been open-sourced, it's ...

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