Re: [arch] VM/Classlibrary interface

[Tor-Einar Jarnbjo]

Rodrigo Kumpera wrote:

Last time I checked, no one, nether me or you, is developing code agains the 
TCK, but to a real JVM. And as hard as we may try, sometimes we end with 
software that depends on unspecified behavior. So it's better try to be "bug 
compatible" too.

 

No, I don't agree on this either. Dalibor already mentioned several good 
reasons why Harmony should not try to be implementation compatible with 
any other VM and another good reason is that the usage of 
com.sun-classes is also version or release dependent of Sun's VM. If Sun 
decides to rename, repackage or somehow change the internal classes in a 
new VM release, e.g. 1.5.0_04, code relying on these classes will break 
as well. The implementors of such code should fix their part and no 
other VM vendor seem to find a reason to implement their VMs in such a 
fashion that broken code will run on them.

Tor