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Parts of this article overlap with [[OpenJDK]], [[Java Class Library]] and [[IcedTea]]. I'm not clear on what can be done about it though. I don't think the articles can be merged. Should a new article covering the overlapping parts be created? I cross-posted this discussion to all talk pages. --[[User:Chealer|Chealer]] ([[User talk:Chealer|talk]]) 21:40, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
: The articles should not be merged, agreed. They are conceptually separate, albeit tightly inter-related in practice. Methinks the correct place to cover the overlapping parts is right here, in the [[Free Java implementations]] aka FJI article -- IcedTea and IcedTeaWeb are particular instances of FJIs, ditto for GCJ and gnuClasspath. OpenJDK is the normal thing that people mean when they talk about FJI, but it is incomplete (e.g. no java-web-start-plugin-style support without IcedTeaWeb). Therefore, I suggest that this is the place to put summary info, since it encompasses all the others. As the comment below from early 2013 points out, this FJI article is also way out-dated, last messed with in 2009 from what I can see[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free_Java_implementations&diff=555315531&oldid=339545616], plus a couple sentenced added by yourself (Chealer) in 2011. Turning FJI into a terse situation-overview article, with pointers to the relevant subsections of the openjdk/gcj/icedtea articles which give details, will prolly both improve wikipedia's coverage of the subject and simultaneously keep the FJI article from being neglected in the future. Reason being, FJI has a fuzzy focus at the moment, which overlaps with all the other articles, as you mentioned -- I suggest we narrow the focus to being something about like an extended disambiguation-page, and move most of the meaty contents to the respective sub-articles. Ping me on my talkpage if you think this sounds good, and I will try and make the rough-draft edit. [[Special:Contributions/74.192.84.101|74.192.84.101]] ([[User talk:74.192.84.101|talk]]) 16:08, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
== Article is seriously dated ==
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