Java in Ubuntu

[Remy Maucherat]

Hi,

I read the wiki here: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/JavaIntegration

What is the status exactly ? I see Sable 1.1.8 in main, which I
tested. It lacks some basic stuff (http://sablevm.org/bugs/104), so
upgrading to the latest (1.1.10) would be needed to get something more
than a toy JVM. The maintainer was very helpful, and a JIT seems to be
nearly there :)

Kaffe runs server applications nearly out of the box (usually, startup
scripts tweaking are needed, although I have been told fixes have been
made recently), and has a reasonably fast JIT. One thing I like over
the non free VM is the moderate resource usage. I suspect portability
issues made Sable a better choice for Ubuntu.

For client applications and server applications which will run very
little user code (this means no application servers), gcjing seems the
best solution.

What was the official decision in the end ?

Rémy