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Originally Posted by Tom Line
Out of curiosity, can you please point me to the FIRST official that said Java would definitely be released ahead of time? Most of the people working in the Beta test have been very careful to frame everything in terms of "probably" and "hopefully", and I'm curious where it was stated it would definitely be released in November.
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There were some documents last year which stated Java would be ready for November 2009. The schedule at
http://sunspotworld.com/frc/Schedule.html says so, as did a longer article by WPI which I can't seem to find.
My understanding is that the plan was originally to have the Java libraries released by now, but that it has been deemed that there are still too many bugs with them to allow for a full public release. However, both the FIRST staff and the Beta Teams would like to have it out ASAP for everyone to work with, so hopefully the bugs will be worked out in time so a pre-build-season release will be possible.