Thanks first of all for your help. Yet, something I don't understand. The core Java API is always the same, no matter the implementation, right? So, it's only a matter of specific optimizations for interpreting bytecode. Am I right?
Thanks in advance Mehul Sanghvi wrote: > Yes there are alternatives. Sun's Java/JVM is one option. OpenJDK > which is the open source version of > Sun's JVM is another option. Since the JVM specification is public, > anyone can build a JVM. > IBM has one, HP has one. There is also GCC based gcj which is an > implementation that does not use > byte-code but compiles directly to native code. > > There is also Kaffe, Cacao, and JamVM. All of them are JVM > implementations. Each one confirms to varying degrees > of the JVM specification and hence varying degrees of the Java language. > > > Hope that helps. > > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 16:49, Diogo Oliveira<[email protected]> wrote: > >> From Sun's Tutorial "The Java Technology Phenomenon": >> >> "(...) Every full implementation of the Java platform gives you the >> following features (...)" >> >> The way I see it, Java programming language was created and is >> maintained by Sun (although SE's OSS now I think). Can anyone explain >> to me what they mean with "implementation of the Java platform"? Are >> there alternatives? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaprogrammingwithpassion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
