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'''Blackdown Java''' was a [[Linux]] [[porting|port]] of [[Sun Microsystems]]'s [[Java virtual machine]], developed by a group of volunteers led by Juergen Kreileder, Steve Byrne, and Karl Asha, and included a team of volunteers from around the globe. <ref>{{cite web

| title = Java Linux Contact Information

| url = http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java-linux-contact.html

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| archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/19961019171456/http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/Information.html

| archivedate = 1996-10-19

}}</ref> predating Sun's official Linux port.

Blackdown Java supported Linux on [[Instruction set|architectures]] that the official version did not, including [[SPARC]] and [[PowerPC]].<ref>{{cite web

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| url= http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2007-May.txt | title = Open JDK is here!

| publisher=Sun Microsystems

| date = May 8, May 2007

| accessdate=May 9, May 2007}}</ref> The Java software itself still exists on many mirrors.

At its close, Blackdown supported J2SE versions 1.4.2 on i386 and AMD64, 1.4.1 on SPARC, and 1.3.1 on PowerPC<ref>{{cite web

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In [[1999]] Sun Microsystems and [[Inprise]] announced a port of Java to Linux.<ref>{{cite web

| title = PRNewswire: Inprise Collaborates With Sun...on...Java(TM) 2 Platform For...Linux...

| url = http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-12-07-047-04-PR

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The Blackdown team pioneered Sun's involvement with external, volunteer efforts. Steve Byrne, who was working at Sun at the time, worked with Sun legal to hammer out an agreement to license the Java test suite for a few Blackdown participants at no cost, and this was used to certify the Blackdown Java implementation as being 100% Java compatible.

The Blackdown team received recognition at the JavaOne conference in 1998 for the work that the team had been doing.

==Notes==

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==External links==

*[https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/ jdk-distros: community collaboration with the DLJ] -– The official site for the DLJ.

[[Category:Discontinued Java virtual machines]]