MyFaces vs Sun Reference - the latter are not free?
Just a stupid beginner question to be resolved quickly, but I'm curious.
http://www.irian.at/myfacesexamples/home.jsf says:
"MyFaces is a free implementation of JavaServer ™ Faces"
Errr ... there is no Sun implementation, then?
Thanks and cheers Er
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I guess this could mean that MyFaces is free and open source, as opposed to (?) Sun's JSF implementation, although the latter is "free as in beer." But please note that the official website MyFaces does not use this designation.
Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre
Edit . As pakore points out in the comments, also Mojarra (the codename for the referenced JSF implementation) is "free as free" (using the CDDL license ). As such, it remains somewhat unclear why the slogan "implement free JavaServer implementations" is actually derived from this MyFaces sample site . Maybe it doesn't really matter. :-)
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