Java in Ubuntu !!!

rpowersau at gmail.com rpowersau at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 00:25:54 UTC 2005


On 8/29/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
> blastus wrote:
> 
> > GNU Classpath looks like a good project but I just don't see it being
> > practical. Firstly, Sun's runtime is the defacto standard. If you are
> > distributing Java applications you'd better make sure they run on Sun's
> > runtime because almost everyone expects you to use it.
> 
> Absolutely. That doesn't mean the various Free Java implementations are
> pointless. _I_ need to use Sun Java for development. I try not to use
> anything too cutting edge, so that there's a reasonable chance that Free
> Javas will work.


I think the point is that the gnu classpath is a subset of sun's java, not a 
branch. So if you write your app so it will run using gnu, then it will run 
under sun's java. So developing to gnu's java won't lock you out of any 
java.

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Russ
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