Java in Ubuntu !!!

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Aug 30 13:18:08 UTC 2005


rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:

> 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.

Right.  And using kaffe won't either...  The fact is, they're _too_ far
behind the times, as of yet, to be useful.
-- 
derek





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