Java in Ubuntu !!!

[Jason Voegele]

On Tue, August 30, 2005 1:21 am, rpowersau at gmail.com said:
> On 8/30/05, blastus <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>> Since it appears the bytecode GNU Classpath produces is incompatible
>> with the bytecode that Sun's javac produces,
>
> Is this true? GNU Classpath provides the core java libraries. Javac is a
> compiler. If you create an app with an os compiler and GNU Classpath, it
> should run on any vm. Can GNU Classpath be used with javac?

Right, Gnu Classpath is simply a set of Java libraries, and as such does
not provide a compiler or produce bytecode.  The previous poster may be
referring to GCJ, which is a Java compiler that produces native code
(rather than Java bytecode).

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Jason Voegele
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