On Monday 10 January 2005 17:11, Dalibor Topic wrote: > I guess you'll be going for the 1.5 TCK scholarship as well? Or are > there other Java-whatever-edition versions that Sun has started removing > their legal cruft to allow compatible open source implementations? > Afaik, with the TCKs <1.5 the problem was that Sun tied in a lot of SCSL > covered code in the TCK package, requiring implementations to propagate > it, thereby killing any chance of an implementation being compatible > with their test suite and open source at the same time.
That's where the fun begins. :-) What I would really want would be J2ME CDC certification, and that's a whole different bunch of fish. > > In the meantime I did manage to elicit this statement from a Sun > > engineer, while talking about something other than JCK: > > > > [...] > > That sounds like an attempt at 'Carrot And Stick'. :) > > I doubt that Sun running amok in SCO style would make a lot of sense. Indeed it wouldn't. They made similar noises at Acunia when they heard that Wonka was going to be open-sourced (not before), and we just ignored them. (for the Dutch speakers, we "did as if our nose were bleeding"). Sun can exert a lot of pressure on commercial J*v* vendors though, which is why so many vendors of indepently developed VMs have ended up becoming licensees. > People wanting their implementations to be compatible with Sun is a > no-brainer, even without a stick, as otherwise one couldn't run the > existing code out there. > > > [...] the rest of us might [...] > > think you were working on a runtime for Ada or Occam or something. > > I'll add those to my list of code to merge into Kaffe, thanks :) Then all we need is an Ada- or Occam-to -j*av*-bytecode compiler. :) Cheers, -- Chris Gray /k/ Embedded Java Solutions Embedded & Mobile Java, OSGi http://www.kiffer.be/k/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +32 3 216 0369 Visit us at�Embedded World 2005 <http://www.embedded-world.de/> 22--24 Feb. 2005 at the N�rnberg Messe (Germany), booth 10-504 _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
