And if you're really interested in getting Java code running on .NET, a friend of mine in the Netherlands has a JDK running on .NET that will run James from Jakarta, and is now trying Eclipse.... -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://www.freeroller.net/page/dion/Weblog Work: http://www.multitask.com.au
James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/12/2002 12:00:44 PM: > > >The Question I have for everybody here is does anyone have any interest in > > >Porting any of the other jakarta projects to C# so that they may > be able to > > >run on Mono/Linux/windows & .Net/Micorsoft ? > > > > > what this sppose to mean????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > ppl, why want you to support C#????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Sticky issue, but from one perspective you could say that C# / CL* have > more potential to be an open platform than java at the moment, > considering that Microsoft has submitted most of the base platform to > ECMA, while Sun still has a strangle-hold on Java... > > > ok, if so, then long live Mr.Miscro$of and make me suffer for paying you > > extra money for buggy software :( > > > > by the way, don't forget to change it > > from "Apache Software Foundation" > > to ".Net Apache Software Foundation " :P > > The foundation is platform and language agnostic already, they own / > steward projects written in C / Java / Perl / Python / ... and that run > on many many platforms. > > > i will leave Apache system if you used any Micro$oft products. > > when you support Micro$oft you help in KILLING an open source project :'( > > To be fair, it may be possible to implement CL* version of various > projects without using or requiring any Microsoft product. Especially > the many useful server side components that live at Jakarta. You might > look at NLucene as an example. > > I'd investigate the relationship between Microsoft and the pieces of the > .NET platform before becoming too upset about this. You might be > surprised (or I might be =) > > But really, as long as someone is interested in doing the work, more > quality software that gives more people more options is not a bad thing. > > --jt > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ForwardSourceID:NT00096596 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
