Re: kaffe and/or sablevm in mozilla?

[David Fokkema <dfokkema@ileos.nl>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:50:27AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> jjluza <jjluza@yahoo.fr> writes:
> 
> > like it is said in the doc, these packages (free implementation), make
> > you to be able to compile and run java program.
> > But they don't work to browse Internet and its java applets.
> > You need a closed source one to do that (sun, ibm or blackdown one)
> 
> Wow, that's pretty impressive FUD.
> 
> There are two technical obstacles I can think of to using a free JVM
> as a Mozilla plugin.  One is actually writing the plugin, which is
> probably the easier part.  The second is an implementation of the Java
> class libraries that actually supports things like the Java AWT ("GUI
> stuff"); my impression is that the only Java standard library
> implementation out there is GNU Classpath, and they're strictly
> text-only.  (So you could, in theory, write a DFSG-JVM Mozilla plugin,
> but it'd be useless without the non-free class libraries.)

Thanks! IIUC, this means that for the time being, I best use a non-free
plugin like blackdown's, but it is possible that free plugins will
become available in the future, :-)

David

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