2) There is a middle ground position which would be to provide natively compiled version of a few select applications. Eclipse comes immediately to my mind,
Daniele mentioned Tomcat. The question is, to we want that for any single java library in Debian? If not, where do we draw the line?
That is my opinion too. There is no reason to compile all java libraries
to native. This would be too much repositroy waste for nearly no gain.
Native Eclipse IS a gain. Native Tomcat most probably too. We need to
find the big things and optimize it/build it to native so people can
easily work with it and make the native libraries an improvement for
them and no additional burden.