Re: java

[Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>]

Lucio wrote:
Hi Lucio,

> Java + linux (be it debian or others) + ppc is an unfortunate combination, 
> because there isn't a complete java 2 VM that officially supports this kind 
> of platform. You can try with gcj or kaffe or other OSS efforts, but, AFAIK, 
> none of these currently implements full java 2 compliance.

More correctly: Not the full 1.4 API compliance, because Sun keeps the 
tests locked away. Both Kaffe and gcj have a lot of the classes from 1.4 
implemented, but it's impossible to say how compliant they are with Sun 
without access to Sun's compliance tests.[1]

In any case, it seems compliant enough these days to run Jetty, Tomcat 
and such things. I guess that matters more in practice than sporting a 
cute logo :)

Now if I could only figure out why Kaffe fails to load classes for 
Arnaud on powerpc, and find someone to fix the ppc JIT in Kaffe's CVS to 
work on linux, I'd be happy :)

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] But of course, there is also a free software compliance test suite, 
mauve :)