Dimitrios Vyzovitis wrote:
Tony Dean wrote:
> I presented a paper on using JNI with Linux at the Atlanta Linux
> Showcase and the feedbackThis is exactly what I'm interested in. These efforts may only need to be reinvirorated.
> ran from one guy telling me this was exactly what he needed to someone
> else wanting to
> rewrite the entire Java class library with JNI and opensource. A
> replacement library that
> relied on opensource would be a good place to start and I even had a
> publisher interested in
> a book along those lines.
>
> What next? Well I guess I'll start making some calls and get back to
> those who are
> interested and start a splinter group.classpath and japhar are pretty good alternatives and should not be
neglected. Perhaps some effort should be put in generalizing the open
source java initiative, that could eventyally take control away from
sun. Classpath is probably the library you are looking for.
I saw this on Slashdot already and this is why I was pointing out that a standards effort
Btw, sun has dropped the standarization effort (I tried to post this
earlier, but somehow it didn't make it to the list):
could be effected outside the control of Sun.
-- Tony Dean Linux: The choice of a GNU Generation!
