Hello, I have been lurking on this list for while and hope I'll be able to contribute something one day.
In the meantime, maybe you'll find in the link below some arguments why a project like Harmony is useful. Don't know how authentic the memo is of course, but the problems can be checked easily. cheers, Burak "The Java Problem" http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php?memo_id=1321 Author: Julian S. Taylor Reviewed by: Steve Talley, Mark Carlson, Henry Knapp, Willy (Waikwan) Hui, Eugene Krivopaltsev, Peter Madany, Michael Boucher Executive Summary While the Java language provides many advantages over C and C++, its implementation on Solaris presents barriers to the delivery of reliable applications. These barriers prevent general acceptance of Java for production software within Sun. A review of the problem indicates that these issues are not inherent to Java but instead represent implementation oversights and inconsistencies common to projects which do not communicate effectively with partners and users. [...]