Open-source Java software company JBoss Group said on Monday that it will participate in the Sun Microsystems-controlled process that dictates the technical direction of Java software.

“We’re working on an N1 software developer kit, which would greatly extend an IT developer’s ability to interact with components of the system,” said John Fowler, Sun’s CTO for software.

Unlike the Free Software Foundation, it doesn’t usually get political or controversial. But the ASF is calling Oracle out over its handling of the Java Community Process (JCP).

Java processes are launched with a set of parameters, among which will be the launcher JAR for the app. This JAR will contain the class that starts the app. You can use WMI to print out your Java ...