Alexey Varlamov wrote: > 2006/9/13, Alexey Varlamov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: <snip> >> Hmm, I'm not sure I understand how the Harmony launcher could be >> helpful to an adaptive VM, until the VM can detect by which launcher >> it is invoked and adapt accordingly. But the latter is evidently >> unnecessary complication... >> The launcher imposes certain requirements to VM: >> - to handle "luni" part of bootclasspath on it's own; >> - to recognize Harmony-specifc arguments, as >> "_org.apache.harmony.vmi.portlib"; >> And there are other implications of Harmony classlib, like explicit >> loading of certain natives, etc. So the VM must have an adaptive >> harmony layer anyway... > > And again, an Invocation-capable VM is supposed to work with arbitrary > launcher, therefore the Harmony launcher should be minimized. >
We should fix the launcher requirements you mention. In particular, we should allow, but not require, the absence of the portlib argument. Where it is not provided the classlib code should provide a default instance. I'll call this out in a mail new thread since it will need an extension to the VMI functions. Regards, Tim -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
