From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 23 07:58:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA00604 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 07:58:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA00590 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 07:58:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA06653; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 08:58:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 08:58:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199608231458.IAA06653@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: didier@omnix.fr.org Cc: Nate Williams , Warner Losh , Chuck Robey , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.02 In-Reply-To: References: <199608222354.RAA04123@rocky.mt.sri.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > And given Sun's recent 'attitude' regarding Java, there is *very* little > > chance of one happening. Sun is getting very propriatary (sp?) about > > Java, and the Linux developers were forced to remove their port of the > > JDK from ftp sites after being 'contacted' by Sun's lawyers. > > I dont like sun's attitude but I think that's impossible to ignore java. > there are probably many possibilities but I'm not sure of the right one > > there are several questions > > - is kaffe able to totally replace the native java ? > (I heard many horrible about kaffe) Not yet. > - is it possible to write a x86 solaris emulator for FreeBSD ? It's always possible, but probable? I don't see any volunteers jumping up and down trying to do it, are you willing to do it? > - are there any possibilities to only distributes the patch to the original > source file for java (with no line of the original sdk file in the diffs) Doubtful. Nate