On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 07:03:46AM -0500, Michael Sinz wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:17:19 +0100, Kuno Skach wrote:
>
> >hi!
> >since i m currently developing some applets for netscape, and since i
> >would like to use the blackdown-java-port together with tya to speed up
> >netscape, i am looking for a java-plug for netscape. i found a dead link
> >from javasoft to blackdown that should lead to something called
> >activator. i have searched the archive and the blackdown site but
> >couldn't find it. does this piece of software still exist? was it
> >withdrawn? why?
>
> Well, the plug-in has not been worked on in a while. Netscape 4.5
> has Java 1.1 built in and they have a JIT that is a bit better than TYA
> in their JVM. (Even the Linux Netscape does on x86 - just like on
> Windows x86 systems.)
>
> Sun did much of the original activator work and it is not part of the
> JDK 1.1 source license we had.
>
That is truely a shame the netscape vm has to many bugs to be relied on for
development and is barely reliable for a release.
Brad
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