Although Java itself still is under the jurisdiction of the Java Community Process rather than being open source, developers are benefitting from open source technologies dubbed “Java rebel frameworks” in a recent Burton Group study. These frameworks consist of programming models and APIs outside the JCP and provide alternatives or supplements to J2EE technologies.Developers have been responding to the notion of rebel frameworks since Infoworld published its article on the concept. One Java afficionado at Javalobby.org said open source, by providing access to code, helps get jobs done faster in times when developers are asked to do more things quicker. Chatters also question the notion of open source “lock-in” posed in the Burton Group study. While it can be debated whether or not projects such as Hibernate, Struts and Tapestry are actually rebels, the breadth of these projects and others shows the initiatives being taken by the community at large to build the base of Java technologies. Rather than presenting an argument for an all-out, open sourcing of Java, the rebel frameworks – their existence and their acceptance – actually present a case for keeping Java as it is. If it aint broke, don’t fix it. Technology Industry