"I think [Motorola is] trying to take some leadership and sort of throw down the gauntlet for other industry participants," Jackson said. However, by open sourcing its Java implementation, Motorola gives away its secret sauce to competitors, he said.

Also as part of its JavaOne rollout, Motorola is unveiling OpenSource.Motorola.com, an online resource for sharing source code, original open source projects, ideas, and information with open source developers globally.

The Eclipse Foundation, meanwhile, is announcing the unification of several modeling projects under a single, top-level project.

The open source tools organization also will announce that the Eclipse Plug-in Central (http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/) community portal launched by three Eclipse member companies will now be under Eclipse jurisdiction.

The new Eclipse Modeling Project focuses on model-based development technologies within Eclipse. It unites existing projects under one umbrella to foster collaboration, unify direction, and improve interoperability.