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Free Java implementations are software projects that implement Oracle's Java technologies and are distributed under free software licences, making them free software. Sun released most of its Java source code as free software in May 2007, so it can now almost be considered a free Java implementation. Java implementations include compilers, runtimes, class libraries, etc. Advocates of free and open source software refer to free or open source Java virtual machine software as free runtimes or free Java runtimes. Wikipedia →
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Modern Operating SystemsAndrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos · 1992
Clean CodeRobert C. Martin · 2008- 📕Best practices in access servicesLori Driscoll · 2008
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Programming Language PragmaticsMichael Lee Scott · 2009
Introduction to making very big booksUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions · 2011
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