Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:45:35 -0800 From: Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [press@apache.org: PRESS RELEASE: ASF Reaches Agreement with Sun to Allow Open Source Java Implementations] Message-ID: <20020328064535.GB2973@gnuppy.monkey.org> In-Reply-To: <20020328171038.A23486@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20020328002610.GA2023@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20020327221634.M1335-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> <20020328171038.A23486@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 05:10:39PM +1030, Greg Lewis wrote: > My favourite here would be ORP. Its done by Intel, so there is enough > weight behind it (albeit x86 centric weight) and the license is > essentially BSD (or Apache if you like :) style. IMO the biggest lack They're involved with the Mono folks too. > at the moment isn't in the JVM world (there are quite a number that come > to mind) its in creating all the run time classes which actually get > you "Java". GNU Classpath is pretty much the only attempt I'm aware of > to remedy it and their status still indicates that they are _aiming_ to > be compatible with 1.1 (i.e. they're not yet at 1.1 compatibility with > 1.4 out already). Yeah, it's grim. It might be a more realistic target once the J2SE APIs have settled down a bit in the coming years. Either hope for that or hope that Sun changes their attitude to the Java sources. I personally don't understand the problems with Sun/Apaches, so I have zero idea what all the recent news means. bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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