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Are there any plans to make the Liberty Profile open source?

The "normal" WebSphere 8.5 is a 2GB download and some 200MB extra to create a profile. That's some 2.2GB.

Why does it need to much space to essentially implement Java EE 6? Most competitors need between 50 and 200MB for this.

(Liberty is really liberating here, but just wondering about WebSphere 8.5... what's IN there???)

Thanks for your reply!

If you open source the WebSphere specific parts (your own code), then it's still your own code, isn't it? JBoss also integrates numerous open source projects (like Mojarra for JSF), but they still control the code that makes JBoss AS an application server.

So I didn't mean to hand over the code to some community or committee, but just to release the source code, so in development mode people can attach the code and step through it in e.g. Eclipse in case of problems or unexplained behavior.

What do you think is the advantage of closed source? (if any, honest question). I mean, suppose I'm a vendor like you are. I have the choice between open source and close source.

You made the choice for closed source. What were the pros that made you decide that?

If you would build a (perhaps personal) web app with Java EE (on WebSphere of course), which technologies would you use?

JSF, CDI, EJB, JPA? Any third party libs you like, like Guave or PrimeFaces?