BB wrote,
>OK, I wanted to know if there was any reason to choose Java SE 6 over GCJ
>for a political chat room, I attend.
>
>guess I'm going with GCJ till I hear otherwise, or it doesn't work...
I'm at a loss to understand why a political chat room would care one way
or the other which one you use. In most cases Java is a pretty
non-partisan thing.
Java SE is Sun's Java runtime environment. It includes all the pieces
needed to execute Java bytecode, as well as the standard library routines
that a Java program might call upon. An additional package, the Java SDK,
contains the Java compiler, which turns Java source code into compiled
bytecode.
GCJ is Gnu's Java compiler. Unlike Sun's compiler, it compiles Java source
code into native machine code (though there is a command-line option that
makes it produce standard bytecode too). It also includes a bytecode
interpreter ("gij") which can substitute for Sun's runtime environment.
But GCJ's class library isn't complete...according to the latest
documentation, some key components are still missing, including all the
GUI support.
If you want to run other people's .class or .jar files, then your best bet
is Java SE. If you want to write your own Java programs, get the Java
SDK. If you want to write your own Java programs and compile them into
native executables (and you can live without graphics), then you want GCJ.
- Neil Parker
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