On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Vincent Renardias wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > > The fact that there are no Free JVMs/compilers at present is a temporary > > problem. Java is, in effect, non-free for now, but this will change when > > these projects approach completion. Java is not really a moving target as > > far as I can tell, so the free implementations _will_ catch up to Sun. > > Agreed, but the Free alternatives have been catching up since 96 without > being completly usable. > The JVM specs are actually frozen, but each new JDK version brings up new > APIs that needs recoding, so I expect the free classes implementations to > be still lagging behind the IBM/Sun ones... > > > > As for GNU's support for Java, it's encouraging development of free > > > alternatives to Sun/IBM's JDKs, but it's not-quite-here-yet(tm). > > > > Again, insert statement about the temporary nature of the problem here. > > Theory: the problem is only temporary > Practice: it's been temporary for 5 full years :(
What, you think Java's going to be obsolete by the time the free implementations are done? Not likely! ;) The core classes themselves don't seem to be changing, either, by the way. I don't see any word of JDK 1.4... > Cordialement, > > -- > Linux : c'est free mais c'est pas grave. > Regards, Alex.