From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 23 08:02:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA01403 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 08:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA01387 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 08:02:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.7.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id PAA21127; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:01:50 GMT Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 00:01:50 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: didier@omnix.fr.org cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: JDK 1.02 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 23 Aug 1996 didier@omnix.fr.org wrote: > 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) Java is well specified, if enough people want to start using Java then good alternative implementations will follow. It usually takes a lot more time. > - is it possible to write a x86 solaris emulator for FreeBSD ? The question is do people want it bad enough to spend the time and energy it requires. Regards, Mike Hancock