Re: Free Java : is native code the way?

[Bernd Kreimeier <bk@lokigames.com>]

> I always thought the missing link for free Java was the lack of a free
> standard Java library implementation (hence projects like
> www.classpath.org); is that problem addressed now?

To my understanding gcj has it's own libgcj, which has to duplicate
all Classpath effortsndue to CNI. Pure Java could be shared between 
both projects, but as long as gcj does not support JNI, the native 
code can not be shared. The core classes (in particular AWT) depend 
on these native components. Different clean-room implementations might 
have made different choices on which methods are native (e.g. Kaffe's 
lightweight AWT).

                                                           b.


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