In <[email protected]>,
on 03/28/2011
at 10:35 AM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> said:
>zIIPs require special SRB enclave coding, as I understand it. zAAPs
>run java byte code.
No; they run the same instructions as any other engine, except for the
instruction used to determine whether an engine is a general CP. When
a ZAAP is used for Java the JVM interpreter is running on the ZAAP.
>Java is no more dangerous than COBOL.
The issue isn't the language features, it's the interpreter.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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